[lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] [lojban-announcements] Web programming request, *very* simple. I think.

[Oren <get.oren@gmail.com>]

Yea, I have been thinking about what a lojban site using Drupal would
be able to accomplish, and managing content like corpus elements is
the sort of thing that would be dumb-easy (any other fans of CCK in
the house?). I've got my own development server, and can get a
prototype for the content management part up this week. Can you send
or link to the 80-percent lojban validation script?

-me

<ramble>
The script to collect the entries together is only as difficult as
determining specifications for the corpus-- one big block-o-xml is
trivial. I think the most forward-thinking implementation allows for
uploading lojban translations with optional original texts. Managing
associated translated texts is benchmark two.
<overboard>
Then in my dream world, the original texts get exploded into
sentences, and there is a separate interface on the website to align
the original sentences to lojban translations, which any lojbaner
could do, in turn generating a bunch of well-formed and meaningful
bi-lingual example sentences for learners [you know, to fill in some
example sentences on jbovlaste],
<insane>
and then when we all lose our jobs and have years of free time, the
corpus linguists among us could get a decoder up on this shit and
start cranking out awful automatic translations from natlangs into
lojban. Just imagine-- with a prescriptive grammar we could always
ensure syntactically valid awful translations.
</insane>
</overboard>
</ramble>
</email>

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 04:31, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> FOLLOWUPS TO: preferrably me privately, or the main list.
>
> It would be really, *REALLY* nice for the BPFK if we had a large
> corpus of Lojban text all in one place.
>
> To that end, what I'd like is a system that does this:
>
> 1.  Sends email to a fixed address (probably the BPFK list) on every
> change.
>
> 2.  Accepts input of either uploaded files or URLs, with
> descriptions and such.
>
> 3.  Presents a list of same that allows for changing the URL or
> description, or re-uploading if it's a file.
>
> 4.  Once an hour or so, runs through everything, strips crap like
> HTML out, and makes one giant text file out of it, with delimiters
> saying which part came from which.  Provides a constant URL to the
> latest version.
>
> Things I can help with:
>
> A.  You're welcome to an account on lojban.org ; it's a Debian Linux
> server
>
> B.  I have code that checks on a line-by-line basis for text that is
> at least 80% Lojban; we could have the sources stored by this system
> optionally (a checkbox or something) pass everything through that
> code.
>
> C.  Stripping HTML or TeXInfo or just about anything else is
> absolutely trivial for me; I can help with that part.
>
> This looks to me like about a 5 hour job; if it looks much longer to
> you, either you need to find a better web framework or I've failed
> to communicate what I have in mind.
>
> -Robin
>
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