From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 30 09:50:06 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:50:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EA9J6-0007Zk-P5 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:49:56 -0700 Received: from [208.234.8.229] (helo=intelligenesiscorp.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EA9J2-0007Zc-EI for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:49:56 -0700 Received: from zombiethustra (pcp06586041pcs.nrockv01.md.comcast.net [69.140.24.121]) by intelligenesiscorp.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id j7UGnYou014449 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:49:48 -0400 From: "Ben Goertzel" To: Subject: [lojban] Re: Loglish Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:49:46 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <1125387154.28554.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 10465 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ben@goertzel.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list > > The next step in the development of the Loglish concept would > be the actual > > implementation of a Loglish parser. One of my colleagues plans > to do this > > over the next couple months, but we'll see if it actually comes > about and at > > what rate! When/if a Loglish parser is completed I'll put it online and > > announce it here so y'all can appropriately and good-naturedly rip it to > > shreds ;-) > > What language / platform do you plan to implement this parser on? > > Will you use existing work (such as jbofihe, rlpowell's RATS parser)? > Will you publish any of your work under an OSS license? Hi, The Loglish parser (assuming it's created, which is likely but not certain) will probably be implemented in either python or Java. I dislike perl; and though I like C++ I think it's probably not ideal for this project, as C++ code would be too easy for others to mess up in the future. Java is the most likely language to be used here. Our existing WordNet manipulation code is mostly in Java. The licensing issue is not 100% decided, but most likely it will be offered under some sort of OSS license (there are many, many varieties of such, as you probably know). We will almost surely use (and then appropriately modify) the PEG formulation of Lojban grammar that Robin Lee Powell has created for use within the RATS parser-generator. Probably we will use RATS as a parser-generator but if this doesn't work out for some reason we will probably use Speagram (see www.speagram.org) as a parser-generator. -- Ben 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.