Received: from nobody by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RXJ68-0000kd-5k for lojban-newreal@lojban.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:55:44 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RXJ66-0000jy-IM; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:55:42 -0800 Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:55:42 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: Koen Cc: lojban@lojban.org Subject: Re: Internship Lobjan Message-ID: <20111204205541.GE7938@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: Koen , lojban@lojban.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: Nobody On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 02:16:40PM +0100, Koen wrote: > > Of course the relevance of Lojban for AI is clear. Therefore I am > trying to combine some Lojban into my master program. We are > allowed an internship in our master program. So I am trying to get > into some Lojban related internship. I don’t have anything > specific in mind yet. Of course I want to learn Lojban, but I am > open for pretty much anything. Also, next week I will have an > appointment with my tutor and then we will discuss the educational > requirements for an internship. After that I will have a more > clear understandin for my internship. > > So, is it possible to have an internship LLG? If not, maybe you > have some suggestions or can help me getting started with > something Lobjan related. Well, that's certainly a request we haven't gotten very often! :) We've certainly got a lot of work that needs doing around here, but none of it is AI related really. The closest I can think of is working on the PEG grammar formalism, and that's not very close. Other large-scale projects we have been looking at: - I'd love to see someone put some real time into Lojban speech-to-text; I suspect the morphological regularities would help, but no-one has the expertise around here to be sure - The next version of our dictionary software; we've had a lot of high-level design ideas, but that's it, and it's a lot of work - Least relevant, but what's taking up my time these days: getting the next version of the CLL ready to go There's probably others. Which isn't to say you couldn't do something AI-related for us, just that we don't have anything in mind in that regard. You may want to contact Ben Goertzel, as well, who was working on that sort of thing more seriously. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/