[lojban] Re: Lojban Sentence Templates

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:37:22PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote:
> The reason I bring this up now is that I would like to find out which
> templates are the most common in the searchable corpus of Lojban
> utterances, such as IRC logs. This would suggest very useful templates
> for the home-game I'm building with dice, paper, and ceramics. I am
> considering recording audio learning courses in which I would group
> Lojban utterances (sensable ones) by template, to provide a variety of
> examples of simple valid sentence structures, and relate selma'o
> through substitution. Perhaps someone could intuit the most common and
> useful templates, if not search it with textfile processing.

With the help of #lojban, I've cobbled together a small collection of scripts that runs through the IRC logs and outputs the sequence of selma'o/word classes that are used.

It's taking very long to run -- I don't expect it to complete in days -- but here are the ten most frequent templates as of now (about 10% complete):

   3191 COI 
   2071 COI cmene 
   1675 UI 
   1290 COI PA KOhA 
    564 gismu 
    415 UI CAI 
    363 KOhA gismu 
    337 PA 
    332 COI gismu 
    324 GOhA 

No big surprises here.

-- 
Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
<Nixon> Etter revolusjonen har jeg ordnet meg slik at jeg får meg statue.
<Nixon> Har avtalt dette med nøkkelpersoner på venstresiden.
<Nixon> Som takk for min innsats.
<Nixon> Det blir en 150m høy statue i havnebassenget.
<Kre> skal du ha restaurant i hodet?


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