[lojban] Lojban training chatbot ideas

[Timothy Lawrence <timothy.lawrence@connect.qut.edu.au>]

Is there already a page on the Lojban wiki about a Lojban training chatbot? If not, I can start one. It doesn't have to be an IRC bot, so I wouldn't reuse that page. This chatbot could be one just embedded in a public webpage, in my mind, that a learner can use before they commit to IRC etc. (there is a high learning curve with IRC for many).

A semi-intelligent Eliza-style chatbot would be good as a first-step for learners, in my opinion, to teach the learner all the high-priority conversation and "emergency" words.

Something like SHRDLU sounds like it could become a great game/toy for learning the space/tense system especially :)

That might be more of a second step for the learner after the Eliza-style one, I am thinking.

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Well, as far as SHRDLU-like goes (ah, good ol' Terry Winograd.  I read his Understanding Natural Language in 1979.), we do have cakyrespa (assuming it still exists) at https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cakyrespa which while not being shrdlu exactly,is a LOGO-like lojban interface.

          --gejyspa

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:33 AM, Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org> wrote:

* Friday, 2016-09-16 at 11:20 +0200 - Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>:

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Timothy Lawrence <timothy.lawrence@connect.qut.edu.au> wrote:

I did a really basic mockup here to show the concept https://jsfiddle.net/gxextk82/10/

> The idea of a lojban chatbot is great. I believe it has been attempted
> previously but I don't know if anything came out.
>
> Even something at the level of the old "Eliza" would be good (and something
> closer to Siri or Cortana would be a dream :) ).

For learning lojban, I think more appropriate than an
intelligence-faking Eliza-style chatbot would be something like SHRDLU:
a system which can react accurately to the precise logical content of
your utterances.

This was actually the original aim of the project which ended up as
la tersmus.... I continue to vaguely plan to get back to it one day, but
I'd also be happy if someone else did it first!

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