From arj@nvg.org Thu Aug 03 04:25:21 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G8bJe-0004Nn-GJ for llg-board@lojban.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:24:54 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F527947CE for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:24:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:24:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Fwd: Lojban: Interesting Grant Opportunity In-Reply-To: <638d4e150608021429i37f57558x67e568c6843cf16b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <638d4e150607281725r5ad4892ai90f44c80bc0497f1@mail.gmail.com> <20060801223809.GA16571@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <638d4e150608012042q371fe1fan411d706dc5a6345f@mail.gmail.com> <638d4e150608021349n7cad8a5j23c8700dd834551a@mail.gmail.com> <638d4e150608021429i37f57558x67e568c6843cf16b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 148 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Ben Goertzel wrote: > Attached find a draft of the "white paper" I mentioned before... Further comments: I believe that the CLL was published in 1997 (amazon.com agrees with me), so replace Cowan (1998) with Cowan (1997). You write "along with a more extensive and formal treatment of Lojban grammar (Nicholas, 2006)", but Nicholas (2006) does not appear in the references, neither has Nick Nicholas to my knowledge published anything Lojban-related this year. Is this passage referring to Cowan (1997)? You write "but no software has yet been written for formal semantic interpretation of Lojban expressions". You might consider mentioning Nick Nicholas' (admittedly, very rudimentary) Lojban Semantic Analyzer from 1993. Relevant links: http://www.lojban.org/files/papers/nsn_semantics_paper http://www.lojban.org/files/software/analyser As for the appendix, I am a bit confused by your focus on _average_ amounts of properties across the members of a set. Is this an important part of how PLN inferences work? Can you give me a link to a thorough description of PLN? -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.