From lojbab@xxxxxx.xxxx Mon Jan 3 09:20:57 2000 X-Digest-Num: 328 Message-ID: <44114.328.1778.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 12:20:57 -0500 From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" (ProtoThinker, as I have >mentioned before, has a serviceable English to logical English rewriter and >the reverse and is very small). I suspect that, given the incentive (e.g., a >body of material to be turned into Lojban and disseminated in a variety of >languages), reasonably good (i.e., as good as any language-language machine >translation) programs would be forthcoming in a very short time. A good >human editor still would be required at each step, alas. I wonder whether Protothinker output is sufficiently structured that we could try to write a "logical English" to Lojban translator that would take its output as a front end. Is this a commerical or an academic research project, and would you have a reference or a contact, in case someone wanted to pursue the challenge? lojbab ---- lojbab ***NOTE NEW ADDRESS*** lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: see Lojban WWW Server: href=" http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/ " Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.