From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Mar 11 16:00:52 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1D9u3f-000687-Oa for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:00:43 -0800 Received: from ns1.stennerglenstudents.com ([65.169.45.2] helo=mail.stennerglen.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1D9u3e-00066E-UB for lojban-list@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:00:43 -0800 Received: from [10.42.3.6] ([10.42.3.6]) by mail.stennerglen.com (Merak 6.1.0) with ESMTP id 048E177C for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:00:11 -0800 Message-ID: <4232328E.7080207@calpoly.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:06:38 -0800 From: Brandon Wirick User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Lojban Masters Thesis Project Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------020907040300080703050600" X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 9562 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: bwirick@calpoly.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020907040300080703050600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit coi rodo My name is Brandon Wirick, and I discovered Lojban a few weeks ago. I had been wanting to find or create a logical language for about ten years, so I natually think Lojban is just about the best thing ever. I intend to become fluent. I am finishing up my masters at California Polytechnic State University, and since I have found Lojban, I decided that I would like to incorporate it into the work I am doing for my thesis. I am working with the XML-based ontology description language OWL, which is primarily used to describe concepts and their relationships on the web. As far as I can tell, no one has yet created an ontology for Lojban terms, so I would like to create one and promote it as a standard for concept representation on the web. Gismu and lujvo would provide a rich base for the ontology, but users everywhere could extend it with words from any language. This could not only help the Lojbangirz gain some recognition, but the Semantic Web effort as well. I'm looking for people who would be able to help me get this project off the ground. I'm good with XML and OWL, but not familiar with the intricacies of Lojban. I have a working prototype ontology that I can demonstrate to anyone who is interested. ki'e Brandon Wirick --------------020907040300080703050600 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

coi rodo

My name is Brandon Wirick, and I discovered Lojban a few weeks ago. I had been wanting to find or create a logical language for about ten years, so I natually think Lojban is just about the best thing ever. I intend to become fluent.

I am finishing up my masters at California Polytechnic State University, and since I have found Lojban, I decided that I would like to incorporate it into the work I am doing for my thesis. I am working with the XML-based ontology description language OWL, which is primarily used to describe concepts and their relationships on the web. As far as I can tell, no one has yet created an ontology for Lojban terms, so I would like to create one and promote it as a standard for concept representation on the web. Gismu and lujvo would provide a rich base for the ontology, but users everywhere could extend it with words from any language. This could not only help the Lojbangirz gain some recognition, but the Semantic Web effort as well.

I'm looking for people who would be able to help me get this project off the ground. I'm good with XML and OWL, but not familiar with the intricacies of Lojban. I have a working prototype ontology that I can demonstrate to anyone who is interested.

ki'e

Brandon Wirick

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