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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:09:01 +1000
From: Naomi K <alien.juxtaposition@gmail.com>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Lojban is poor for machine translation
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"Loglans are poor MT interlinguas" -=20
http://www.rickharrison.com/language/mtil.html

Most of you would probably know of this article, which argues that the=20
syntax of Lojban is overly complex; sumti place structures are too rigid an=
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counter-intuitive; that an artificial language would be more difficult to=
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translate into natural languages as opposed to natural language to natural=
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language translation; that required pauses are unnatural and impractical;=
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and that the compound words are difficult for ML to translate.=20

What is your view of this argument?

mi'e.nei,omis.

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&quot;Loglans are poor MT interlinguas&quot; - <a href=3D"http://www.rickha=
rrison.com/language/mtil.html">http://www.rickharrison.com/language/mtil.ht=
ml</a><br>
<br>
Most of you would probably know of this article, which argues that the
syntax of Lojban is overly complex; sumti place structures are too
rigid and counter-intuitive; that an artificial language would be more
difficult to translate into natural languages as opposed to natural
language to natural language translation; that required pauses are
unnatural and impractical; and that the compound words are difficult
for ML to translate. <br>
<br>
What is your view of this argument?<br>
<br>
mi'e.nei,omis.<br>


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