From - Mon May 05 09:51:57 1997 Reply-To: Lionel Bonnetier Date: Mon May 05 09:51:57 1997 Sender: Lojban list From: Lionel Bonnetier Subject: Re: Natural Language Processing Using Lojban X-To: Lojban ML To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 2030 Message-ID: John Glossner wrote: > Are there any researchers subscribed to this list who are > currently researching natural language processing? I > would like to discuss the merits of using lojban as an > interlingua for NLP. > > I am interested in doing some long-term research in language, > linguistics, machine translation, and functional programming. I am currently designing an interpreter that runs programs or single instructions written in natural language. In order to handle the so-called ambiguities caused by - homonymy: *Set* it to zero. Create a button *set* (...) - or anaphory (backstream reference): Pop up a message box displaying "OK to continue?" with the YesCancel button set. If *the* box returns cancel, escape. it drives ahead the syntactic and semantic analyses together, the way we humans probably do. It is intended also for the speech communication with the future machines. The background of its creation is an AI designed to analyse biological phenomena such as metabolism or ecological interactions. This AI uses some English pidgin to code the sentences, but the deep semantical representation is a congregation of chatting things rather than a linear or tree-like frame. I first looked around to decide whether to use Lojban, English, French, Esperanto, or a numeric table, or a great mess made of all those, but now i'm persuaded that any language may fit in the job, for every language is actually a moving crust on the hot magma of the mind. It is true that Lojban tries to thrust deeper roots into the mantle and allows to shrink the scope of contextual insinuation in some situations. On the other hand, it may give a harsher task to determine the role of an element in the case of a maimed communication where the "parameter ranks" are made unclear. I am rather new to Lojban and I may have uttered some stupidities. Thank you for pointing me them. Lionel. * Lionel Bonnetier * lionelb@asi.fr * Tel: 33 / (0) 478 601 862 *