nomgen
Nomgen, short for nominal generator, is a computational tool or framework designed to produce names and related nominal phrases for characters, places, organizations, or products within fictional or simulated contexts. It is used in game development, worldbuilding, and automated data generation to create varied, believable onomastic material without manual authoring.
Etymology and scope: The term nomgen reflects the goal of generating nominal forms rather than prose or
Methodologies: Nomgen approaches range from rule-based to statistical and neural. Rule-based systems encode syllable templates, phonotactic
Applications and challenges: Common uses include generating character and place names for video games and novels,
See also: name generator, procedural generation, linguistic onomastics.