From lojbab@lojban.org Sun Sep 02 02:26:59 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 2 Sep 2001 09:26:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 53139 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2001 09:26:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Sep 2001 09:26:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta3 with SMTP; 2 Sep 2001 09:26:58 -0000 Received: from user.lojban.org (224.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.224]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f829QvH93698 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 05:26:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010902051758.00bd0100@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 05:24:57 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] word resolution algorithm In-Reply-To: <20010831075759.62d00dee.grey.havens@earthling.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 07:57 AM 8/31/01 +0200, Elrond wrote: > after a long wait, I finallly decided to lay down the issue. Have > a look >at WordResolutionAlgorithm on the Wiki and please comment. I'd really like >to learn I am wrong. > >regards, >co'o mi'e rafael It appears that a key claim on this page is this: >To this day, the way to distinguish the words in a lojban stream of text >is very, very poorly documented (from a computer programmer's point of >view). The only rules are given in the refgram, are vague, and were never >proven unambiguous. The rules, so far as I know, were NOT given in the refgram, BECAUSE they had not been proven. However they were stated algorithmically for a computer programmer's point of view in the file brkwords.txt which is in the software area of the lojban.org site. A corresponding Pascal program implements the algorithm. The algorithm was tested pretty heavily but we could not come up with a scheme for formally proving it. I don't know anything about the relative virtues of the brkwords algorithm and whatever underlies jbofi'e. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org