Re: Some peripheral notes on Legalese Lojban

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 05:02 AM 01/03/2000 -0500, Pycyn@aol.com wrote:
>(ProtoThinker, as I have
>mentioned before, has a serviceable English to logical English rewriter and
>the reverse and is very small).  I suspect that, given the incentive (e.g., a
>body of material to be turned into Lojban and disseminated in a variety of
>languages), reasonably good (i.e., as good as any language-language machine
>translation) programs would be forthcoming in a very short time.  A good
>human editor still would be required at each step, alas.

I wonder whether Protothinker output is sufficiently structured that we 
could try to write a "logical English" to Lojban translator that would take 
its output as a front end.  Is this a commerical or an academic research 
project, and would you have a reference or a contact, in case someone 
wanted to pursue the challenge?

lojbab
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