[lojban-beginners] Re: learning lojban for computer science?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:58:51PM -0500, ethan wrote:
> On the main lojban site the software section doesn't seem to have
> extensive software. 

wiki.lojban.org is better for that.

> I was under the impression that lojban and loglan were partially
> created with an eye towards human computer interaction. Is this
> true? 

Not that I'm aware of, but many current Lojbanists are very
interested in that area.

> If so, is there a reason there is not more software? Is there some
> fundamental problem that prevents this from happening? 

Time, money, and skill.  In order of importance.

For example, it takes a *tremendous* amount of time to record and
mark up enough speech to make a good TTS system.

STT is even harder; it *should* be possible to use Lojban's
structure to make shortcuts here, but I don't think any current
Lojbanists know enough about the field to do it.

> Is it worth learning lojban if my main interest is computer
> science?

I think so.  We'd love to have more CS people working on relevant
projects.

As an aside, there's a guy right now who's seriously investigating
Lojban for RDF and the semantic web (two areas I know nothing about,
myself).

-Robin

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