Re: [lojban] Master thesis in computational linguistics

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

I enjoy Larry Moss's (of Indiana University) logics for natural language semantics, which speaks a lot to decidability/computability. I attended his lectures this past summer at NASSLI, and I think this talk might at least help to contextualize the relevance of processing "natural" language with logic:

http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ASL31910.pdf

It doesn't address imperatives, and parsing (restricted) natural language has already been done (English), but if you wanted to showcase lojban, maybe the 'unexpected consequence' idea could take off; that is, things like:

Frege’s favorite food was sushi

.: Frege ate sushi at least once

might be more easily computable with lojban's restricted vocabulary and built-in "common sense" -- consisting in whatever lojban <-> lojban definitions there are lying around in jbovlaste etc.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 08:30, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:

The basics are pretty straightforward, though occasionally complex (converting
internal connectives into external ones, shifting quantifiers to the front and
figuring out their scopes).  The more interesting problems involve stripping off
the human elements: questions (though those can be made to fit logic),
exclamations, commands and the like.  I don't know of anyone who has tried to
write a program for doing all (or any) of this, but it seems perfectly feasible
-- though not, perhaps, in a master''s degree time frame.

----- Original Message ----
From: ianek <janek37@gmail.com>
To: lojban <lojban@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 6:16:12 AM
Subject: [lojban] Master thesis in computational linguistics

coi
I'm going to have my computer science master thesis in computational
linguistics. I thought about making a translator from Lojban to logic.
What do you think, has somebody tried it before, with what result?
Also, what other subjects connected to Lojban do you suggest?

mu'o mi'e ianek

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