[lojban] Re: Loglish

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

> > The next step in the development of the Loglish concept would
> be the actual
> > implementation of a Loglish parser.  One of my colleagues plans
> to do this
> > over the next couple months, but we'll see if it actually comes
> about and at
> > what rate!  When/if a Loglish parser is completed I'll put it online and
> > announce it here so y'all can appropriately and good-naturedly rip it to
> > shreds ;-)
>
> What language / platform do you plan to implement this parser on?
>
> Will you use existing work (such as jbofihe, rlpowell's RATS parser)?
> Will you publish any of your work under an OSS license?

Hi,

The Loglish parser (assuming it's created, which is likely but not certain)
will probably be implemented in either python or Java.  I dislike perl;
and though I like C++ I think it's probably not ideal for this project,
as C++ code would be too easy for others to mess up in the future.  Java
is the most likely language to be used here.  Our existing WordNet
manipulation code is mostly in Java.

The licensing issue is not 100% decided, but most likely it will be offered
under some sort of OSS license (there are many, many varieties of such,
as you probably know).

We will almost surely use (and then appropriately modify) the PEG
formulation
of Lojban grammar that Robin Lee Powell has created for use within the RATS
parser-generator.  Probably we will use RATS as a parser-generator but if
this
doesn't work out for some reason we will probably use Speagram (see
www.speagram.org)
as a parser-generator.

-- Ben





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