On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:23:12PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:I think probably the Right Thing to do is to come up with a list of disambiguiting terms that we think are appropriate for an actual dictionary. Some suggestions, just stuff that has come up for me: agentive non-agentive mathematical computer science I'd do more right now, but I have many other Lojban things I'm doing tonight. Other suggestions?Anyone? Anyone? Bueler? Anyone?
Making up more terms shouldn't be too much of a problem. But I suspect that coming up with a *good* set, that can be used in the majority of cases, is profoundly difficult.
It *might* be a good idea to extract some categories from the gismu list, such as:
* shape/form * tool * bodypart -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ "My speech recognition software may have trouble with ordinary words, but not with ketoprofen." --Magnus Itland