[lojban] Re: Lojban Masters Thesis Project

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:06:38PM -0800, Brandon Wirick wrote:
> 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.

Yaaay!

Come by the IRC channel and we'll help.

#lojban on irc.lojban.org (which is actually freenode).

> 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 didn't follow any of that, but you *need* to talk to
jorne@eubot.com

He's working on some of the same stuff.  He's set up
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jorne/

-Robin

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