How it works...

We begin the recipe by importing the Markovify library, a library for Markov chain computations, and reading in text, which will inform our Markov model (step 1). In step 2, we create a Markov chain model using the text. The following is a relevant snippet from the text object's initialization code:

class Text(object):

    reject_pat = re.compile(r"(^')|('$)|\s'|'\s|[\"(\(\)\[\])]")

    def __init__(self, input_text, state_size=2, chain=None, parsed_sentences=None, retain_original=True, well_formed=True, reject_reg=''):
        """
        input_text: A string.
        state_size: An integer, indicating the number of words in the model's state.
        chain: A trained markovify.Chain instance for this text, if pre-processed.
        parsed_sentences: A list of lists, where each outer list is a "run"
              of the process (e.g. a single sentence), and each inner list
              contains the steps (e.g. words) in the run. If you want to simulate
              an infinite process, you can come very close by passing just one, very
              long run.
        retain_original: Indicates whether to keep the original corpus.
        well_formed: Indicates whether sentences should be well-formed, preventing
              unmatched quotes, parenthesis by default, or a custom regular expression
              can be provided.
        reject_reg: If well_formed is True, this can be provided to override the
              standard rejection pattern.
        """

The most important parameter to understand is state_size = 2, which means that the Markov chains will be computing transitions between consecutive pairs of words. For more realistic sentences, this parameter can be increased, at the cost of making sentences appear less original. Next, we apply the Markov chains we have trained to generate a few example sentences (steps 3 and 4). We can see clearly that the Markov chains have captured the tone and style of the text. Finally, in step 5, we create a few tweets in the style of the airport reviews using our Markov chains.