[lojban] Re: jimpe: Language Processing in Lojban

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Rob Speer wrote:

> 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".

Nice!

> 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.

This is probably too late, but maybe you have some time to work on
the paper early tomorrow morning. I suggest that you mention that
people are actively using Lojban in conversation, as opposed to being,
say, a mere logical formalism.

Also, I am personally curious about how you do Natural Language Generation
in Lojban.

-- 
Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
"This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put!"
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