From rob@twcny.rr.com Fri Aug 24 19:13:36 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@telenet.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 25 Aug 2001 02:13:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 4549 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2001 02:13:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 25 Aug 2001 02:13:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO telenet.net) (204.97.152.225) by mta3 with SMTP; 25 Aug 2001 02:13:35 -0000 Received: from riff (ip-209-23-14-21.modem.logical.net [209.23.14.21]) by telenet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA07844 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:13:33 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15aSwl-0000BX-00 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:13:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:13:14 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re-evaluation + an idea - Was: A parable Message-ID: <20010824221314.A685@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com Sender: Rob Speer From: Rob Speer On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:07:35PM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote: > > I don't know how big a task this might be - how many phrases are > > required to completely define all the words and constructions to the > > depth that you'd all like them to be defined. Maybe it's an awful > > lot, so maybe this isn't actually feasible in practice. > > Wonderful idea! We have random sentence software. If you want people to learn from examples, they'll have to figure out a lot of things from context. How the heck do you get context out of a random sentence? -- Rob Speer