From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Dec 13 13:38:28 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 13 Dec 2001 21:38:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 38223 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2001 21:38:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Dec 2001 21:38:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (216.27.131.50) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2001 21:38:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBDLcQw00323 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:38:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:38:25 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Software Translation of Lojban In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1138703 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jay Kominek wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Invent Yourself wrote: > > > > These opportunities could give the Lojban project a boost, if it had a > > > paper ready to backup some of the claims of what can be done with an > > > intermediate language. > > > > > > As said, I can say these things only in an abstract form, with no > > > specific lojban examples. So any work left to do must be done by > > > LLG or I don't know who. > > > > It's possible that the Lojban community doesn't have anybody around at > > this time with the technical ability for such a paper. I could be > > misunderstanding the depth of the undertaking. > > While I've been following this thread intently, I'm not sure what kind of > paper is desired. I'm vaguely familiar with machine translation, and have > been considering the problem of Lojban->English for awhile. I've got some > fairly educated guesses as to what would be involved in what (I think) you > want. Does that count for anything? :) My view, possibly pessimistic, is that nobody will (or should) take us seriously until we have code that runs. -- The tao that can be tar(1)ed is not the entire Tao. The path that can be specified is not the Full Path.