From lojbab@xxxxxx.xxxx Wed May 26 20:20:43 1999 X-Digest-Num: 149 Message-ID: <44114.149.872.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 23:20:43 -0400 From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group Looking in through One-List the other day, I noticed -- back in the >discussion of "teach" and "learn" (pretty useful discussion that -- will it >still be around the next time the question comes up?) -- someone asking >about Lojban as an intermediate language in machine translation. Something >on that line was tried at RAND Corp in 1960-1 with the then-current Loglan, >which lacked all the useful things Lojban has now (i.e., certified freedom >from syntactic ambiguity). The chief problem even then was -- as someone >noted in the recent messages -- writing the Russian and English (in the RAND >case) to Loglan programs. In fact, they never got started because 1) they >were committed to direct translations (and we remember how good those were >in the 60's "Good whisky but we ran out of meat")and 2) being logical was in >effect adding yet another language between each one and Loglan and Russian >to Russian translation was too much for them. They also had those problems >with words; I don't remember "teach" but I do remember color words all over >the place. 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.