On 3/30/2018 10:46 AM, LUKE IMMES wrote:
> Does anyone know of any academic, peer reviewed conference for lojban
> involving
> machine translation, lojban as an interlingua, and so on?
There have not been any.
> Some conferences I have found are:
>
> Goertzel, B.: Lojban++: An interlingua for communication between humans and
> agis. AI Proceedings of China (2013)
>
> Nicholas, N.: Lojban as a machine translation inter-language. Fourth
> Pacific Rim
> International Conference on AI: Workshop ’Future Issues for Multilingual
> Text
> Processing’ (2006). Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics,
> University
> of Melbourne
The only published academic articles on Lojban I know of are Ben Goertzel's, cited above, (I hold the author in high esteem but not that paper) and one by Nick Nicholas in an early volume of _Journal of Universal Language_ (on anaphora, not machine translation). Geoffrey Sampson also published a generous and open-minded review of _The Complete Lojban Language_ in I think it was _Language_. I dimly recall a nutty paper touching on Lojban or Loglan (and uncritically taking Lojban's claims about itself at face value) given by a Russian academic at the somethingth International Congress of Linguists in Paris in 1998 -- I think it was about Whorfianism.
A number of people have done academic work on Lojban either as a hobby or as work towards bachelors or masters degrees; I can't remember any details. I myself long ago supervised an excellent undergraduate dissertation (since lost in numerous office moves) on (iirc) a Dependency Grammar analysis of the formal Lojban grammar.
>
> Thanks for your time and consideration.
>
> Regards,
> Luke P. Immes
> Shrewsbury, MA 01545
> USA
> 508 579 2683
> lpimmes@townisp.com
Nick Nicholas, who you cited above, had at least one other paper
presented at a conference. So far as I know, there has been no
conference focused on Lojban. There has been at least one academic
conference specifically focused on artificial languages in general (it
was here in Washington DC), which I attended maybe 15-20 years ago, and
there may have been others since then.
There have been annual Language Creation Conferences for the last seven or eight years, but these are only very marginally academic.
--And.