Glossary

generator

An Improv object created by Improv()

group

An object consisting of two properties, tags and phrases. phrases is just a list of potential phrases the group’s parent snippet might produce. tags is a list of tags associated with this group, for use in filtering.

phrase

An individual section of text (a string) that can be produced by a given snippet, included in one of the snippet’s groups.

snippet

A specific class of texts intended to be fulfill similar textual role. Each property of a generator’s spec object is treated as a snippet, consisting of an object with a groups property that is itself an array of groups.

tag

In Improv, tags are hierarchical markers; the “world model” is defined in terms of a list of tags. Each individual tag is an array of strings, arranged as an increasingly specific list of categories. The tags property of models and groups is itself an array of arrays.