Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu (uga.cc.uga.edu [128.192.1.5]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id NAA00323 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:08:48 -0400 Message-Id: <199507191708.NAA00323@locke.ccil.org> Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8127; Wed, 19 Jul 95 06:31:57 EDT Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 6264; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 06:31:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 06:33:38 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: conceptually related gismu X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Wed Jul 19 13:08:52 1995 X-From-Space-Address: <@uga.cc.uga.edu:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> I haven't checked lately on the ftp site, but there have been 3 independent efforts at classifying the gismu according to a Roget-like thesaurus classification. At least one of these used to be up on the ftp site as file roget.txt in the lang-design subdirectory. That is probably Athelstan's work, with other efforts done by Cowan and Carter. The clssification field in the gismu list is a set of codes for ordering according to word frequency, to get a non-random, non-alphabetical ordering for study. If you sort, i think descendingly, you will get words in a fairly useful order for study. There was also a set of codes relating to the old textbook file order, but it doesn;t match the current version of the draft textbook, hence is relatively useless. The 8th field that Richard Kennaway refers to is specifically the non_logFlash portion of the dictionary entry for the word. The gismu cross-references therein constitute a 4th version of a semantic netwrook covering the language, though it was done far less systematically than the Roget-like efforts. Grepping for any word in the gismu list will, however, give you a host of words related to that word, because of the cross-referencing. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@access.digex.net Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 For the artificial language Loglan/Lojban, see ftp.cs.yale.edu /pub/lojban or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/"