From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Mar 11 16:13:14 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:13:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1D9uFV-0006WL-AO for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:12:57 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1D9uFV-0006WE-81 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:12:57 -0800 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:12:57 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojban Masters Thesis Project Message-ID: <20050312001257.GO16527@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <4232328E.7080207@calpoly.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4232328E.7080207@calpoly.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9563 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:06:38PM -0800, Brandon Wirick wrote: > 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. Yaaay! Come by the IRC channel and we'll help. #lojban on irc.lojban.org (which is actually freenode). > 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 didn't follow any of that, but you *need* to talk to jorne@eubot.com He's working on some of the same stuff. He's set up http://sourceforge.net/projects/jorne/ -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/