New algorithm for learning languages

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

     "Science Blog" has an entry today about a new
algorithm for a computer to infer the grammatical rules underpinning
any language and generate meaningful sentences:
     "In addition to child-directed language, the
algorithm has been tested
on the full text of the Bible in several languages, on artificial
context-free languages with thousands of rules and on musical
notation." Is Lojban one of those artificial context-free languages it
refers to? If not, perhaps we should contact the researchers and tell
them they can test their algorithm on Lojban texts and see if the
grammar it infers is the same as the one we have on record.
     I was particularly interested in the fact that
this algorithm can generate sentences. I would love to have a program
that would output a new Lojban sentence every day for me to translate;
and like I said on the beginner's mailing list, I long for the day that
jbofi'e will offer grammatically-correct variations on ungrammatical
text entered into it.
-epkat