[lojban] Re: some thoughts about lojban use and future

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:33:22PM -0000, And Rosta wrote:
> 
> Rob:
> > Here are the things we can't do outside of demos:
> > 1. We can't translate between vastly different languages (like English and
> > Korean) with any success at all.
> > 2. We can't parse arbitrary sentences.
> > 3. Even if we have parse trees, we can't turn them into accurate semantic
> > representations.
> > 4. Even if we have accurate semantic representations, we can't put them
> > together and hold a natural discourse.
> >
> > I'm working on a project to use Lojban to get a foot in the door on 2,
> > 3, and 4. The problem is convincing a professor that artificial language
> > processing will help natural language processing, but it's not because
> > the things I'm doing in Lojban have already been accomplished with
> > natural languages. It's because it seems that we won't accomplish these
> > things in natural languages for another 15 to 50 years, and most people
> > have given up on them.
> 
> For natlangs, 2 & 3 are the fault of linguistics -- it's really hard
> for the linguist to work out the grammar of a language, but to the
> extent that linguists succeed with 2 & 3, the computational problem
> of 2 & 3 -- aside from disambiguation 

Errrm.

That would be The Whole Problem, no?

The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten.

-Robin

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