Received: from mail-ie0-f189.google.com ([209.85.223.189]:61145) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TGSI0-0004cQ-Rf; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:23:04 -0700 Received: by iebc10 with SMTP id c10sf2895803ieb.16 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:22:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=x-beenthere:date:from:to:message-id:in-reply-to:references:subject :mime-version:x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results :reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id:x-google-group-id :list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=6Y1dbLodziR1cAga5B5OaqREzEZ/FlOszke+pNmYQE8=; b=dxrrOGCU53dR2Mmx/BGhJn3tyj58UubhESSPXpYtEgTov5GcAjIMBTemWo6VsIsEYD Nup/LGJghpCLNNWzd+d+in6eB5qIOpOi3oPqS6tIFLNNL46ljYm6hZlymy9Lc4dXu1Ui B3njHMjZVYkjY4Dh5NXR2mS4Qi/2JqpriLEP4V8mMfqlFWK+vbLf+GaMK0OFZgbKpg+j kFU0lZ7eMPuwT30vs97EULpfCQIqYK4JSlm+4o/NZ9dXaZER+1Gw9mcJzQ7vy1Ae7cmv PuQN5B1mZY1PA+m+bWWYvaMU1qXS4wKVQc2OvJgnmqx1EhlsXOvcL9qzOlUVZ9Gg59HF 4bTw== Received: by 10.52.90.69 with SMTP id bu5mr2240909vdb.6.1348568565840; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:22:45 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.220.155.6 with SMTP id q6ls4807819vcw.3.gmail; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.71.38 with SMTP id r6mr2207223vdu.12.1348568565247; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:22:44 -0700 (PDT) From: la gleki To: lojban@googlegroups.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20120925045651.GC15249@sunflowerriver.org> References: <75e248bd-5f19-4528-8b2a-f6360bca7e2f@googlegroups.com> <20120924180102.GA15249@sunflowerriver.org> <152c1c85-500f-4499-8d24-51cbd24dd8eb@googlegroups.com> <20120925030016.GB15249@sunflowerriver.org> <7d0ab523-0ab0-486f-a491-bb3b08133d70@googlegroups.com> <20120925045651.GC15249@sunflowerriver.org> Subject: Re: [lojban] A new Lojbanic wiki (LMW). On the threshold of the 25th anniversary of Lojban MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: ls.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com designates internal as permitted sender) smtp.mail=gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_798_33493882.1348568564885" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / ------=_Part_798_33493882.1348568564885 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:56:34 AM UTC+4, .alyn.post. wrote: > > Awesome Lindar, thank you for your replies. > > I'd like to outline a problem I have right now and see how much > overlap there is with your ideas for this wiki. > > I was recently invited to work on opencog[1]. Specifically I was > asked to modify my parser, jbogenturfa'i[2], to provide Lojban > abstract syntax trees to OpenCog to support the Natural Language > Processing (NLP) research happening there. > > I believe that using Lojban for NLP research makes certain classes of > NLP problems go away, allowing you to focus on other potentially more > fruitful classes of problems instead. The hypothesis is that these > other classes of problems, once explored and perhaps even solved, make > the first class of problems more tractable. > "assert(Lojban == NLP bootstrap)", if you will. > This is totally awesome, the first hint that Lojban is indeed more than an ordinary language. I'll be waiting for some papers published by you describing your research. > But, to borrow a phrase: 'Some people, when confronted with an NLP > problem, think "I know, I'll use Lojban." Now they have two > problems.' > > It is absolutely pointless to tell a researcher that the utterance: > > ".i ta mo" > > creates the abstract syntax tree: > > '(text (I-clause (cmavo (I "i"))) > (paragraphs > (paragraph > (sentence > (term (sumti (KOhA-clause (cmavo (KOhA "ta"))))) > (selbri (GOhA-clause (cmavo (GOhA "mo")))))))) > > And expect that to be useful without a lot of additional support. > Stated another way: it is foolish to expect that researches at > OpenCog will spend *more* effort than I have learning Lojban. They > have science stuff they need to be doing. > > If I'm going to succeed in making Lojban part of OpenCog, I need to > provide reference quality context sensitive help for the grammar and > vocabulary so a researcher can make sense of what they're looking at, > above. > > This could all be done with mediawiki: I essentially need a grammar > dictionary and grammar reference rolled into one, all linked together > using some templates. The closest thing we now have to this is: > > http://vlasisku.lojban.org/ > > And it would be nice to take this essential idea and make it richer: > wrap tutorials, examples, discussion, &c around it. Possibly like > we do on the Where Are Your Keys? wiki with techniques, which all > have a template describing them: > > template: http://wiki.whereareyourkeys.org/Template:NewTechnique > example: http://wiki.whereareyourkeys.org/Set-up > > Is this sort of thing compatible with what you have in mind? Something > I could use to programatically link parts of a Lojban abstract syntax > tree to pages that answer questions like "WTF is KOhA?" > For me Wiktionary is a useless website. We need a more strict database similar to jvs. If you can turn MediaWiki into such kind of database using SemanticWiki plugins or something it would be really *banli*and we would get rid of jvs. I'll approve it if it is able to 1. Autoredirect from {selprami} to => {selpa'i} etc. 2. have regexp search by fields (definition, notes, glosswords...) 3. have voting system for each word -Alan > > 1: http://opencog.org/ > 2: http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Jbogenturfahi > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:09:46PM -0700, la .lindar. wrote: > > On Monday, 24 September 2012 19:59:59 UTC-7, .alyn.post. wrote: > > > > This is a project I could really find myself getting behind, and I > > also have some concerns. Would you, gleki, or someone else > involved > > be willing to discuss them with me? > > > > Yaaaaaaay! Enthusiasm! > > > > > > * I'd like to hear at least a basic outline on the theory of why > the > > existing Lojban wiki got to it's current (rubbish?) state and > what > > will be different this time. > > > > Abandonment of pages and generally a lack of any articles linking to > other > > articles or any sense of anything linking to anything ever. Have you > ever > > been caught in wiki hell before? I want to see that level of linkage > on > > every wiki page. Also, slightly unrelated, but still awesome, we can > make > > a page for the best-form lujvo and then redirect all possible > combinations > > of rafsi to the best-scoring word (i.e. brodybroda redirects to > rodbo'a > > and fukpyvalsi / fukyvalsi / fukyvla / fu'irvalsi / fukpyvla / etc. > > redirects to fu'ivla), which may be a boon for using the website as a > > dictionary tool. It would allow us to include discussion, examples, > and > > more along side the definition of each word. > > > > > > * Sort of to the same point: this community starts far more > > projects than it finishes. This impacts the wiki, because a > page > > will get written but then becomes unmaintained and eventually > > becomes part of the long tail of pages that are out of date but > > still vaguely relevant. Is starting this wiki also a commitment > > to curate it? Asked another way: is this project different from > > the other projects that are started but not completed or > > maintained? > > > > Lindar actually gives two shits about it and is currently working on > the > > dictionary project, which I hope will integrate with this. The big > reason > > for MediaWiki of all things is that it lets a dumbshit like me create > Wiki > > pages without having to understand complex concepts like > "programming" or > > "computers", so I can just slap-dash a page together with a pretty > picture > > (I can't embed pictures on tiki pages like on MediaWiki. This is a > huge > > problem for me and one of my biggest complaints.) and call it a day. > > > > > > * Last week I needed the redirect feature of Lojban's tiki > software > > enabled. I was able to contact Robin on IRC and ask him to > enable > > it, and he did so later than day. Who is the support person for > > this wiki? Any idea of how responsive you'll be? > > > > This, unfortunately, cannot be answered by Lindar. > > > > > > * I have several templates that I would like to use on this > wiki. > > They require the Cite and ParserFunctions extensions. Will > the > > support person add these extensions please? /me starts > timer. > > > > Again, not by me. If this remains outside of lojban.org then it's > entirely > > in the hands of the two people that've developed the page so far. > Either > > way, not something with which I can help. > > > > > > Thank you! I have made a deep investment in mediawiki and use it > in > > every other community I participate in. I'd love to see [1] > lojban.org > > use this software, but I don't understand why it fixes and/or is > > better than the current wiki. > > > > I hope I've been a help with some of your questions. > > -Lindar > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "lojban" group. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > [2]https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban/-/6nvjZFs4A9sJ. > > To post to this group, send email to loj...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > lojban+un...@googlegroups.com . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en. > > > > References > > > > Visible links > > 1. http://lojban.org/ > > 2. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban/-/6nvjZFs4A9sJ > > -- > .i ma'a lo bradi cu penmi gi'e du > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. 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On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:56:34 AM UTC+4, .alyn.post. wrote:=
Awesome Lindar, thank you for = your replies.

I'd like to outline a problem I have right now and see how much
overlap there is with your ideas for this wiki.

I was recently invited to work on opencog[1].  Specifically I was
asked to modify my parser, jbogenturfa'i[2], to provide Lojban
abstract syntax trees to OpenCog to support the Natural Language
Processing (NLP) research happening there.

I believe that using Lojban for NLP research makes certain classes of
NLP problems go away, allowing you to focus on other potentially more
fruitful classes of problems instead.  The hypothesis is that thes= e
other classes of problems, once explored and perhaps even solved, make
the first class of problems more tractable.
"assert(Lojban =3D=3D NLP bootstrap)", if you will.


This is totally awesome= , the first hint that Lojban is indeed more  than an ordinary language= .
I'll be waiting for some papers published by you describing you= r research.



But, to borrow a phrase: 'Some people, when confronted with an NLP
problem, think "I know, I'll use Lojban."  Now they have two
problems.'

It is absolutely pointless to tell a researcher that the utterance:

  ".i ta mo"

creates the abstract syntax tree:

  '(text (I-clause (cmavo (I "i")))
         (paragraphs
           (paragraph
             (sentence
               (term (sumti (KO= hA-clause (cmavo (KOhA "ta")))))
               (selbri (GOhA-cl= ause (cmavo (GOhA "mo"))))))))

And expect that to be useful without a lot of additional support.
Stated another way: it is foolish to expect that researches at
OpenCog will spend *more* effort than I have learning Lojban.  The= y
have science stuff they need to be doing.

If I'm going to succeed in making Lojban part of OpenCog, I need to
provide reference quality context sensitive help for the grammar and
vocabulary so a researcher can make sense of what they're looking at,
above.

This could all be done with mediawiki: I essentially need a grammar
dictionary and grammar reference rolled into one, all linked together
using some templates.  The closest thing we now have to this is:

  http:/= /vlasisku.lojban.org/

And it would be nice to take this essential idea and make it richer:
wrap tutorials, examples, discussion, &c around it.  Possibly = like
we do on the Where Are Your Keys? wiki with techniques, which all
have a template describing them:

  template: http://wiki.whereareyourkeys.org/Templa= te:NewTechnique
  example:  http://wiki.whereareyourkeys.org/Set-up  = ;

Is this sort of thing compatible with what you have in mind?  Some= thing
I could use to programatically link parts of a Lojban abstract syntax
tree to pages that answer questions like "WTF is KOhA?"

For me Wiktionary is a useless website= . 
We need a more strict database similar to jvs. If you can= turn MediaWiki into such kind of database
using SemanticWiki plu= gins or something it would be really banliand we would get rid of jv= s.

I'll approve it if it is able to
1. A= utoredirect from {selprami} to =3D> {selpa'i} etc.
2. have reg= exp search by fields (definition, notes, glosswords...)
3. ha= ve voting system for each word

-Alan

1: http://opencog.org= /
2: http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Jbogenturfahi

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:09:46PM -0700, la .lindar. wrote:
>    On Monday, 24 September 2012 19:59:59 UTC-7, .alyn.po= st. wrote:
>=20
>      This is a project I could really find myself g= etting behind, and I
>      also have some concerns.  Would you, glek= i, or someone else involved
>      be willing to discuss them with me?
>=20
>    Yaaaaaaay! Enthusiasm!
>=20
>=20
>       * I'd like to hear at least a basic outline o= n the theory of why the
>         existing Lojban wiki got to it's curre= nt (rubbish?) state and what
>         will be different this time.
>=20
>    Abandonment of pages and generally a lack of any arti= cles linking to other
>    articles or any sense of anything linking to anything= ever. Have you ever
>    been caught in wiki hell before? I want to see that l= evel of linkage on
>    every wiki page. Also, slightly unrelated, but still = awesome, we can make
>    a page for the best-form lujvo and then redirect all = possible combinations
>    of rafsi to the best-scoring word (i.e. brodybroda re= directs to rodbo'a
>    and fukpyvalsi / fukyvalsi / fukyvla / fu'irvalsi / f= ukpyvla / etc.
>    redirects to fu'ivla), which may be a boon for using = the website as a
>    dictionary tool. It would allow us to include discuss= ion, examples, and
>    more along side the definition of each word.
>=20
>=20
>       * Sort of to the same point: this community s= tarts far more
>         projects than it finishes.  This = impacts the wiki, because a page
>         will get written but then becomes unma= intained and eventually
>         becomes part of the long tail of pages= that are out of date but
>         still vaguely relevant.  Is start= ing this wiki also a commitment
>         to curate it?  Asked another way:= is this project different from
>         the other projects that are started bu= t not completed or
>         maintained?
>=20
>    Lindar actually gives two shits about it and is curre= ntly working on the
>    dictionary project, which I hope will integrate with = this. The big reason
>    for MediaWiki of all things is that it lets a dumbshi= t like me create Wiki
>    pages without having to understand complex concepts l= ike "programming" or
>    "computers", so I can just slap-dash a page together = with a pretty picture
>    (I can't embed pictures on tiki pages like on MediaWi= ki. This is a huge
>    problem for me and one of my biggest complaints.) and= call it a day.
>=20
>=20
>       * Last week I needed the redirect feature of = Lojban's tiki software
>         enabled.  I was able to contact R= obin on IRC and ask him to enable
>         it, and he did so later than day. &nbs= p;Who is the support person for
>         this wiki?  Any idea of how respo= nsive you'll be?
>=20
>    This, unfortunately, cannot be answered by Lindar.
>=20
>=20
>          * I have several templates that = I would like to use on this wiki.
>            They require the Cite and= ParserFunctions extensions.  Will the
>            support person add these = extensions please?  /me starts timer.
>=20
>    Again, not by me. If this remains outside of lojban.org then it's entirely
>    in the hands of the two people that've developed the = page so far. Either
>    way, not something with which I can help.
>=20
>=20
>      Thank you!  I have made a deep investment= in mediawiki and use it in
>      every other community I participate in.  = I'd love to see [1]lojban.o= rg
>      use this software, but I don't understand why = it fixes and/or is
>      better than the current wiki.
>=20
>    I hope I've been a help with some of your questions.
>    -Lindar
>=20
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> References
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>    Visible links
>    1. h= ttp://lojban.org/
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