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Re: [lojban] Semantic Representation of Lojban
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 12:00:58PM -0500, Brian D. Eubanks wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thanks for your response and the crowdsourcing idea, and for linking
> to Jorne. As you suspected, I did only receive one or two inquiries
> about the linking effort.
>
> I like your idea of splitting a Wordnet linking project into specific
> chunks, each one centered around a group of related concepts. I
> discovered a very old mapping of gismu to Roget codes, which could be
> a starting point. I think I need to make this process super easy and
> painless if I expect anyone to get involved.
>
> What if I created some web pages that would allow Lojban experts to
> pick a gismu, then select related Wordnet or dbpedia entries from a
> list, and automatically save it to a database?
>
> We could then make the jorne web service accept Lojban text, and
> respond with related references from the Linked Data cloud. With this,
> you can follow that data to English and other Wordnets, Library of
> Congress subject headings, wikipedia/dbpedia, and the rest of the
> Linked Data "cloud".
>
> The Semantic Web conference was fantastic! It was overwhelming, but in
> a "too many sessions and not enough time" sort of way. The latest
> tools are amazing, and adoption is reaching a critical mass. I am
> considering submitting a talk for Semtech 2011 on why Lojban would
> work well with the semantic web. The due date is Monday, so I better
> get cracking on it ASAP. Wish me luck!
>
> As far as source code for my simple parse tree service, it's a real
> hack right now, but I will clean it up a little and put it on the
> jorne sourceforge.
>
> Last year I had intended to get more involved in this, but ran out of
> time to work on it. Now that there seems to be some interest from both
> you and Oren, and others, it's time to make this a reality.
>
> Are you offering to own the farm animal words? (asking rather
> sheepishly...) ;-)
>
I will do farm animal words. I'm not 100% sure what you need.
Taking a stab, I can start with the things you list above, would you
like to be specific about what you need or are you happy with my
being creative in delivering it?
-Alan
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