[lojban] Re: Loglish: A Modest Proposal

["Ben Goertzel" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Jorge,

You are correct, I was being overly sloppy, sorry..

"la Ben cu murder lo chicken lo pliers quu weapon"

is necessary to preserve uniqueness of parsing

Regarding

"chicken"

vs.

"chicken qui bird"

I think it's reasonable in Loglish to adopt the convention that the first
WordNet sense of a word is taken as a default, and doesn't need to be
specified.

Also, one could potentially adopt the convention that, when a
later-than-first sense of a word is specified, then the next uses of the
word are taken to have this other sense, until another sense is specified
for the word.

So, in

"la Ben cu murder lo chicken qui coward lo pliers quu weapon"

"la Dr. Who cu resurrect lo chicken"

the "chicken" in the second sentence would be automatically taken as
"chicken qui coward" rather than "chicken qui bird"

In some empirical work studying humans interacting with natural language
processing systems, we found it is quite rare for a word to be used in more
than one sense in the same context (of course, these experiments were with
descriptive rather than poetic discourse, obviously).

-- Ben


> On 8/15/05, Ben Goertzel <ben@goertzel.org> wrote:
> >
> > As an example of the algorithms I described in my prior mail, suppose
> > someone says
> >
> > "Ben murder chicken pliers quu weapon"
> >
> > This means that "Ben murders chickens using pliers as a weapon"
> >
>
> Wouldn't you need:
>
>   la Ben cu murder lo chicken lo pliers quu weapon
>
> ? Otherwise, it might be taken to mean "Ben is a murderous chicken
> using pliers as a weapon" or "Ben is a murderously chickeny
> pliers-as-a-weapon" or "Lo! there's Ben type-of murderously chickeny
> pliers-as-aweapon!" or something else. (I'm not sure if names
> can be recognized as sumti in Loglish even without {la}, or whether
> "pliers quu weapon" can be taken as a sumti even without a gadri.
> You might also need to distinguish "chicken quu animal" from
> "chicken quu coward".)
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
>
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