From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jun 15 20:25:17 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:25:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MGPIT-0008W2-88 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:25:17 -0700 Received: from mail-bw0-f223.google.com ([209.85.218.223]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MGPIQ-0008Vl-Ft for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:25:17 -0700 Received: by bwz23 with SMTP id 23so3357699bwz.34 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:25:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=V/0MH2PQnZNvX0Z7Fr1pNHXEJCm5K0jUa4s2JknEt4o=; b=qGjNAe1nGeQzqGJIiG5mbsq8RblzCoAo2iKzvwEOgMvgZX8iPBOKuQmOnCM8WLESwm 3xrRX/7ziaDoXCc8r1+cFme7EzSNm/+8jNtaTqMILbznUnusFkrHloxprRek5xcAuY9L Lonv89TdYVJs5e75JUVN/34Wd/x8Q4EkTEkOc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WVYWj8y5vNfq9d7/rpKnlj548KgGPAXtq+9R7N4A4H0nwAsfAxgR0kc/7hh6bQ6HjI a+WYRhgHqq1pyGh9kT3OTFfzQFuQ7p3Z4KitTWMoq/C+N6e4XS8h88wSqvSF3tOrOD0k YamQNTp/FlhgQ4OzsVz+gp0eKrIYmS9vGkf3Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.117.65 with SMTP id p1mr7744635bkq.91.1245122708085; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:25:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:25:08 -0400 Message-ID: <55b258c20906152025i52d2bc2axa46528206d602046@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: Why Google Should Learn Lojban From: Craig Daniel To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 15669 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: craigbdaniel@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > http://www.reddit.com/tb/8ssl6 (http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-google-should-learn-lojban.html) > Let me know what you think of this post =] > It's basically geared towards non-lojbananas talking about how > Google could use lojban for its translations engine and it should offer it as a language. Request it: > translation-services@google.com > The trouble with using Lojban for their translation engine is that it is entirely statistical in nature (in fact, it processes language in exactly the way that the example sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" was invented to claim as an impossibility), so its best interlanguage is one with massive heaps of parallel text lying around between that and all the other languages. Lojban would be nice, but we don't have enough of a corpus yet. Not that I wouldn't love having Lojban available from Google in other ways, of course. That would be great. mu'o mi'e .kreig. 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.