From arj@nvg.org Fri Jul 30 00:39:06 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:39:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67] ident=[8YWczjzvQFrSDVBQwlCeVoqvFxSJvZsp]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BqRyg-0003oG-HM for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:38:54 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.68]:13700 "EHLO hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]" whoson: "-unregistered-") by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no with ESMTP id ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:37:34 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:38:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: lojban-list@lojban.org cc: havasi@MIT.EDU Subject: [lojban] Re: jimpe: Language Processing in Lojban In-Reply-To: <20040729215411.GA11429@nerd-xing.mit.edu> Message-ID: References: <20040729215411.GA11429@nerd-xing.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-archive-position: 8359 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Rob Speer wrote: > Time for me to announce something I've been working on all summer. > > Catherine Havasi (who recently introduced herself on the lojban-beginners list) > and I have been developing a system for reasoning in Lojban, called "jimpe". Nice! > We're submitting an extended abstract about the system to the Student Oxygen > Workshop at MIT ("Oxygen" is this nebulous all-encompassing project with lots > of funding). I've put up the paper at: > http://mohican.lids.mit.edu/lojban/jimpe_sow.pdf . If people want to give me > comments on the paper (such as, how I present Lojban to an audience that's > probably going to say "wait a minute, you're doing natural language processing > without the natural language?") before I submit the paper tomorrow, that would > be great. This is probably too late, but maybe you have some time to work on the paper early tomorrow morning. I suggest that you mention that people are actively using Lojban in conversation, as opposed to being, say, a mere logical formalism. Also, I am personally curious about how you do Natural Language Generation in Lojban. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ "This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put!" --attributed to Winston Churchill