[lojban] Re: Academic background on Lojban

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

klaus612@gmx.net wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am new to Lojban, and I'd like to know a bit more about the academic background of it. More specifically, I'd like to know where I can find scientific publications about Lojban, and maybe a list of academic researchers or academic projects working on Lojban-related topics. I have not been able to find this information on the Lojban website.

Honestly, there aren't any.  We would like that there be some, but until 
we get a much larger speaker base, there likely won't be.  There have 
been a couple of academic papers written with reference to Lojban, but 
they really are minor.  They are possibly on the website somewhere - one 
was by Ivan Derzhanski on types of tanru (some of the paper was added to 
the tanru chapter of CLL - I don't know if the paper was published in 
any academic publication)

and a couple were by Nick Nicholas - from his web page:

Nicholas, N. 1996a. Lojban as a Machine Translation Interlanguage in the 
Pacific. Fourth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial 
Intelligence: Workshop on 'Future Issues for Multilingual Text 
Processing', Cairns, Australia, 27 August 1996. 31-39.*
(the cite on the page is invalid - but the following has a good link to 
a cached PDF)
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.55.5331

Nicholas, N. 2002. Folk Functionalism in Planned Language: The 
Long-Distance Reflexive vo'a in Lojban. Journal of Universal Language 
3:1. 133-167.
http://www.unish.org/unish/DOWN/PDF/Nick_Nicholas(133~167).pdf

In looking for a copy of the former, I found
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.9704
which apparently has a reference to Lojban, but I haven't read the paper.

I have one academic project based on testing the relationship between 
learnability of words and the recognition score that was used in 
wordmaking, but I haven't worked on it in years, and I would likely pass 
it to someone else who was interested, and who had a better statistical 
background than I have.

We did some planning for a preliminary experiment for a Sapir-Whorf 
test, but we never actually tried it.

lojbab


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