From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jul 31 14:23:33 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:23:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G7fEZ-0005BK-KB for llg-board@lojban.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:23:31 -0700 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:23:30 -0700 To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: [ben@goertzel.org: Lojban: Interesting Grant Opportunity] Message-ID: <20060731212330.GO28137@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20060729213809.GA28137@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060729213809.GA28137@chain.digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 From: Robin Lee Powell Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 139 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board I'm going to respond in the affirmitive to this, and will talk to Ben directly about getting him that translation and who should be named besides the LLG itself, unless someone objects. -Robin On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 02:38:09PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > I haven't read this thoroughly yet. > > -Robin > > ----- Forwarded message from Ben Goertzel ----- > > Subject: Lojban: Interesting Grant Opportunity > From: Ben Goertzel > To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org, mark@kli.org > Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:25:50 -0400 > > Hi, > > The attached grant opportunity seems like a really nice opportunity to > get funding for Lojban and Loglish development. > > My plan would be to use the $$ to develop > > * robust Lojban and Loglish linguistics resources > * a software toolkit making it easy for AI's to intercommunicate using > these languages > * training materials teaching humans to communicate using these languages > > Both Lojban and Loglish would be developed and the advantages of each > would be empirically studied in studies involving humans entering > knowledge and interacting with computers. > > I need to put together an interdisciplinary team for this proposal, > and I would like the proposal to include some of the leaders of the > Lojban community. > > As always with government grant proposals, I am not sure how good the > chances are, but it seems worth trying, as what they are asking for is > really right up Lojban's alley. (Setting aside the Lojban/Loglish > debate for the purpose of this email....) > > They want a white-paper submitted by Aug 17, then within a month or so > they will tell you whether they want you to submit a full proposal or > not. > > So, what I'm asking for now is whether you would > -- allow me to list your names as collaborators, on the white paper > -- review the white paper and make suggestions [of course if you > really don't like it, you can remove your name before I submit it] > > If the whitepaper gets selected for "full proposal submission" then of > course we'll have more to talk about... > > Also, finally, I will want to present a sample conversation translated > into Lojban as part of the proposal, and my Lojban sucks. So having > one of y'all do the Lojban translation would be very valuable. > > Thanks, > Ben > > > > ************* > To those who expressed interest in the "Cognitive Approaches to NLP" > symposium, > > > Last week I attended a "Language for Bots" workshop at West Point. The > workshop was essentially a kick-off for the long-term development of a > language to support communication between humans and machines. A key > driver for this line of research is a $5 million MURI Grant to support > an interdisciplinary team of researchers over a 5 year period. I am > attaching the MURI announcement for your information and > consideration. > > One caveat: MURI grants must go to academic institutions and typically > involve teams of researchers from multiple institutions. > > My apologies for multiple postings (once again)! > > > Jerry > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ > Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" > Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ > > -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/