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Re: [lojban] Automatic Lojban -> English translation?



In a message dated 6/17/2002 3:41:53 AM Central Daylight Time, pmak@aaanime.net writes:


Since Lojban is supposed to be unambiguously parsible, would it be theoretically possible to write a computer program that parses Lojban and outputs readable English (or any other language) without loss of meaning?


Yes -- strong emphasis on the "theoretically," but that is true of all machine translation projects.  This was one of the first practical uses sugggested for Loglan (c. 1961) and is still somewhere in many people's mind.