Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:16:21 +0100 (CET)
From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
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From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>

> >Could a Lojban parser output intelligible English some day? 
> 
> No doubt an approach similar to whjat you describe of converting parse to
> Prolog to Lisp to English would be more effective than what Nora is
> doing, but Nora's solution is easy (if she only had time to work on it)

I would find time to work on a lojlisp2english program.  Also, I suspect
it's more easy to do than what Nora seems to be attempting, if only I have
a Lisp representation of the parsing result available.
 
> A good glosser is a useful learning tool.  A good translator would also be
> good.  But the main thing needed to make either very useful is some kind
> of AI based error correction - something that couild look at a bad parse and
> figure out what was likely to be wrong (a missing "cu", two selbri in the
> bridi, etc.) and perhaps even suggest the corrections.

That again is a very difficult tenth step
The first step is done (John Cowan's parser).  
I only need a commandline switch that will output the
parsing result in Lisp (foo bar baz) notation.  

The second step is a lojlisp2english converter that will allow people to
read existing correctly written lojban texts in [Logician's] English and,
by comparing with the original and the lojlisp version, understand the
original structure without having to look up every word.
 
-- 
Hartmut Pilch
http://www.a2e.de/phm/


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