[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban is poor for machine translation

[Brandon Wirick <brandon@yrick.com>]

Thank you for clarifying. I realized I had assumed the two to be part
of the same goal. Right now I'm focused on the problem of extracting
logical relationships from prose for use on the Semantic Web, for
which Lojban is the best language I've seen. I figure if every natural
language can translate to and from Lojban which can in turn translate
to and from, say, RDF, then it would be possible to establish a
community that consists of software agents and humans of different
linguistic backgrounds.

I realize, though, that in order for such a community to pander to the
needs and limitations of software agents, the communication will not
be quite natural. This is not the goal of traditional machine
translation. I still don't think much of what Rick Harrison says,
however, is relevant to practical problems.

> More precisely, one of the partial reasons for which Lojban was developed
> (among many other reasons of various amounts of importance) was in the hope
> that it would facilitate verbal communication between humans and computers.
> Not necessarily between humans and other humans with different natural
> languages.
>  -epkat