From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Nov 13 12:17:59 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:18:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GjiFL-0006OP-SO for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:17:36 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GjiFL-0006OG-9j for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:17:35 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:17:35 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "la" rule Message-ID: <20061113201734.GE24729@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20061113171203.GD24729@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20061113183304.74025.qmail@web81310.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061113183304.74025.qmail@web81310.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 13098 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 Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:33:04AM -0800, John E Clifford wrote: > Will someone please remind me what horrible things happen if we > simply drop the restriction on cmene and make no other changes > (that is, live as we do now -- with no reported problems). We > might take a vocative as a sumti or, less likely, a sumti as a > vocative. We lose audio-visual isomorphism; la .stivn.laitl. would sound like "la stivn lai tl". > Clearly, humans sort these out, shouldn't the parser do > so as well? ... Short answer: "No; machine recognition of ambiguous languages is AI-hard." -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/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.