Re: Some peripheral notes on Legalese Lojban

[Pycyn@aol.com]

Protothinker is produced by Wadsworth Publishing (div. of  International 
Thomson) so meant mainly as for school use.  It is the work of John Barker of 
Southern Illinois U at Edwardsville  Philosophy Department, who used to live 
just down the street from me (and so now is 5 miles away). I have talked to 
him about a project using his gizmo as a part of a machine English to Lojban 
translator and he was at least open to the thought, but we did not pursue it. 
 That was maybe five years ago, with a earlier version of PT.  There is also 
a PT website that serves as a clearinghouse for information about projects 
using PT: www.ptproject.ilstu.edu/pt/index.htm.  They might supply some 
willing hands.  I think the translation part is adequate for the logic, the 
rest may need the usual massages.
pc