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Catherine Havasi wrote:

>coi rodo i  mi'e katrin.
>
>I guess I should introduce myself.  I'm a graduate student at Brandeis in
>Computer Science.  I study natural language processing, computer learning
>and modeling of cognitive science stuff.  I know a lot about things like
>"manner and path verbs" and "lexicalization biases" although what I really want to
>do is reasoning.  Work I've done has lead me to be interested in a language
>without the complications of English as a basis for a reasoning system.  I was
>introduced to lojban by la rab.spir (hi Rob).
>  
>

Welcome. Similarities between the basic Lojban sentence form (called the 
"bridi") and the third notation for RDF 
(http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer.html) as a basis for inferential 
reasoning have been noted, but the area remains ripe for exploration.


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