[lojban] jimpe: Language Processing in Lojban

[Rob Speer <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Time for me to announce something I've been working on all summer.

Catherine Havasi (who recently introduced herself on the lojban-beginners list)
and I have been developing a system for reasoning in Lojban, called "jimpe".

We're submitting an extended abstract about the system to the Student Oxygen
Workshop at MIT ("Oxygen" is this nebulous all-encompassing project with lots
of funding).  I've put up the paper at:
http://mohican.lids.mit.edu/lojban/jimpe_sow.pdf .  If people want to give me
comments on the paper (such as, how I present Lojban to an audience that's
probably going to say "wait a minute, you're doing natural language processing
without the natural language?") before I submit the paper tomorrow, that would
be great.

Unfortunately, you can't play with Jimpe yet. The code is still very much
in progress. Perhaps one day we'll have a Web or IRC interface to it, though.

Many thanks to xorxes for his well-timed observation that bridi are like
Semantic Web predicates - this has given us a bunch of ideas.

--
Rob Speer