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[lojban] Re: minimal lojban




> 2. Reduce each Lojban utterance into a collection of binary
> (2-sumti) predicates.

What I should have said was:

2. Reduce each Lojban utterance into a collection of binary (not 
necessarily Lojban) predicates.
The reason for reducing down to binary predicates is because of the way 
that RDF is structured.

There are frameworks (ontologies) built on top of RDF for doing more 
Lojban-like n-ary predicates. One that immediately comes to mind is 
called OWL. But it can be done even in plain vanilla RDF. There are 
predefined predicates _1, _2, _3, _4, _5 ..... that would work well for 
sumti positions. (They are essentially entries in a list.)

Being able to convert Lojban to and from RDF would be a HUGE 
breakthrough, and would position Lojban as THE ONLY prose language for 
doing semantic markup. And bring a lot of new interest in Lojban from 
the Semantic Web crowd.

Check out this new RDF-based standard called SUMO (suggested upper 
merged ontology), defined by the IEEE:
http://suo.ieee.org/SUO/SUMO/index.html

They have predefined (and unique) terms for a large number of high-level 
concepts (and how they are related to each other: subclass, instance, 
part/whole, etc). We could define how all the Lojban predicates and 
sumti positions are related to standard SUMO terms. In fact, it should 
be possible to completely define SUMO glosses for Lojban, using only RDF.


Robin Lee Powell wrote:

>Because "Reduce each Lojban utterance into a collection of
>binary(2-sumti) predicates." would preclude that.  Hence my
>question.  Why they're doing it that way, I don't know.
>
>-Robin
>
>  
>




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