[lojban] Re: Lojban Masters Thesis Project

[Jocelyn Paine <popx@j-paine.org>]

I've come across some meaning representations built around semantic
primes, but not AUI. What is it? Would it be the a-priori language
described at http://home.pacifier.com/~patten/ ?

Cheers,

Jocelyn Paine
http://www.j-paine.org
+44 (0)7768 534 091

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, John E Clifford wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>
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