[lojban] Re: Lojban Masters Thesis Project

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

This sounds like an interesting project and I am
glad you think that Lojban may help.  But you
should note early on that Lojban gismu are not
meant to be semantic primes but rather higher
nodes in a web that will be more useful for
forming compounds (primes make for very long
compounds -- check out AUI). Notice, by way of
making the point, the current discussion about
{pilka} and {skapi}, which probably share some
primes and yet are clearly different and are both
gismu.  Taking gismu as fixed points, your web
will have to go down as well as up to fit other
concepts in, if that is the overall scheme you
are following (I don't keep up, so my ideas are
very 1970's -- roughly old stone age, I suspect).

--- Brandon Wirick <bwirick@calpoly.edu> wrote:
> coi rodo
> 
> My name is Brandon Wirick, and I discovered
> Lojban a few weeks ago. I 
> had been wanting to find or create a logical
> language for about ten 
> years, so I natually think Lojban is just about
> the best thing ever. I 
> intend to become fluent.
> 
> I am finishing up my masters at California
> Polytechnic State University, 
> and since I have found Lojban, I decided that I
> would like to 
> incorporate it into the work I am doing for my
> thesis. I am working with 
> the XML-based ontology description language
> OWL, which is primarily used 
> to describe concepts and their relationships on
> the web. As far as I can 
> tell, no one has yet created an ontology for
> Lojban terms, so I would 
> like to create one and promote it as a standard
> for concept 
> representation on the web. Gismu and lujvo
> would provide a rich base for 
> the ontology, but users everywhere could extend
> it with words from any 
> language. This could not only help the
> Lojbangirz gain some recognition, 
> but the Semantic Web effort as well.
> 
> I'm looking for people who would be able to
> help me get this project off 
> the ground. I'm good with XML and OWL, but not
> familiar with the 
> intricacies of Lojban. I have a working
> prototype ontology that I can 
> demonstrate to anyone who is interested.
> 
> ki'e
> 
> Brandon Wirick
> 
>