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From pc - on machine translation using Loglan/Lojban
- Subject: From pc - on machine translation using Loglan/Lojban
- From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group <lojbab@lojban.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 23:20:43 -0400
pc sent the following tidbit to me, stimulated by the mention of machine
translation:
>Looking in through One-List the other day, I noticed -- back in the
>discussion of "teach" and "learn" (pretty useful discussion that -- will it
>still be around the next time the question comes up?) -- someone asking
>about Lojban as an intermediate language in machine translation. Something
>on that line was tried at RAND Corp in 1960-1 with the then-current Loglan,
>which lacked all the useful things Lojban has now (i.e., certified freedom
>from syntactic ambiguity). The chief problem even then was -- as someone
>noted in the recent messages -- writing the Russian and English (in the RAND
>case) to Loglan programs. In fact, they never got started because 1) they
>were committed to direct translations (and we remember how good those were
>in the 60's "Good whisky but we ran out of meat")and 2) being logical was in
>effect adding yet another language between each one and Loglan and Russian
>to Russian translation was too much for them. They also had those problems
>with words; I don't remember "teach" but I do remember color words all over
>the place.
lojbab
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