Message-Id: From: veion@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi Subject: WWW server announcement To: lojbab@access.digex.net Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 21:46:27 +0300 (EET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 4531 Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Mon May 30 14:46:35 1994 X-From-Space-Address: veion@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi Having received no negative comments from the list I decided to go ahead with the publication of the server. The server has actually been semi-public for a few days. I planted a few links to my server at a graphical WebWorld server. The people accessing my server through the links only knew that they were accessing "The Lojban Archive", nothing else. I wanted to see how many of them would access several pages. Well, most of them read just the index page but a few accessed more - one even came back later on. I'll prepare a report in a couple of weeks. I can tell the original source of information from the log trace (List/WebWorld/News). Veijo Here is the News article: From news.helsinki.fi!xiron.pc.helsinki.fi!vilva Mon May 30 21:28:59 1994 Path: news.helsinki.fi!xiron.pc.helsinki.fi!vilva From: vilva@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (Veijo Vilva) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www Subject: ANNOUNCE: The Lojban WWW Server Date: 30 May 1994 18:21:54 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 79 Message-ID: <2sdas2$drm@kantti.Helsinki.FI> NNTP-Posting-Host: xiron.pc.helsinki.fi Summary: announcing the Lojban WWW Server Keywords: constructed languages, planned languages, artificial languages, WWW server X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] la lojban po'u le logji bangu Lojban - The Logical Language An experimental WWW server for material concerning the constructed/ planned/artificial language Lojban is available for public access at The Lojban Archive The server contains language description material, machine grammars (both Extended BNF and YACC versions), complete vocabularies and links to available software, learning material and Lojban texts. la lojban mo --- What is Lojban? Lojban (/LOZH-bahn/) is a constructed language. Originally called "Loglan" by project founder Dr. James Cooke Brown, who started the language development in 1955, the language goals were first described in the article "Loglan" in Scientific American, June, 1960. Loglan/Lojban has been built over three decades by dozens of workers and hundreds of supporters, led since 1987 by The Logical Language Group. There are many artificial languages, but Loglan/Lojban has been engineered to make it unique in several ways. The following are the main features of Lojban: - Lojban is designed to be used by people in communication with each other, and possibly in the future with computers. - Lojban is designed to be culturally neutral. - Lojban grammar is based on the principles of logic. - Lojban has an unambiguous grammar. - Lojban has phonetic spelling, and unambiguous resolution of sounds into words. - Lojban is simple compared to natural languages; it is easy to learn. - Lojban's 1300 root words can be easily combined to form a vocabulary of millions of words. - Lojban is regular; the rules of the language are without exception. - Lojban attempts to remove restrictions on creative and clear thought and communication. Lojban was originally designed for the purpose of supporting research on a concept known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: "the structure of a language constrains the thinking of people using that language". Lojban allows the full expressive capability of a natural language, but differs in structure from other languages in major ways. This allows its use as a test vehicle for scientists studying the relationships between language, thought, and culture. Lojban was designed as a human language, and not as a computer language. It is therefore intended for use in conversation, reading, writing, and thinking. However, since Lojban can be processed by a computer much more easily than can a natural language, Lojban-based computer applications are a natural expectation. Due to its unambiguous grammar and simple structure, it can be easily parsed by computers, making it possible for Lojban to be used in the future for computer-human interaction, and perhaps conversation. Lojban's predicate structure is similar to Prolog, suggesting it as a powerful tool in AI processing, especially in the storing and processing of data about the world and people's conceptions of it. Linguists are interested in Lojban's potential as an intermediate language in computer-aided translation of natural languages. Other people are interested in Lojban as an international language. e'osai ko sarji la lojban --- Please! support Lojban!