From pycyn@aol.com Fri Dec 14 08:29:12 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 14 Dec 2001 16:29:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 46692 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2001 16:29:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Dec 2001 16:29:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r05.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.101) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Dec 2001 16:29:11 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.9.) id r.143.65dd305 (4469) for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:29:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <143.65dd305.294b82d2@aol.com> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:29:06 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Software Translation of Lojban To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_143.65dd305.294b82d2_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_143.65dd305.294b82d2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For what it is worth, there are several papers over the years on normalization of English, translating from ordinary English into English that is close in structure to first order logic and then can be symbolized more or less mechanically. I think that significant parts of these procedures are also reversable. In any case, they suggest a stage in the English - Lojban precess. I don't know if corresponding treatments exist for other languages nor how thorough the treatment of English is taken altogether. --part1_143.65dd305.294b82d2_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For what it is worth, there are several papers over the years on normalization of English, translating from ordinary English into English that is close in structure to first order logic and then can be symbolized more or less mechanically. I think that significant parts of these procedures are also reversable. In any case, they suggest a stage in the English - Lojban precess. I don't know if corresponding treatments exist for other languages nor how thorough the treatment of English is taken altogether. --part1_143.65dd305.294b82d2_boundary--