From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Dec 14 21:32:47 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 15 Dec 2001 05:32:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 80097 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2001 05:32:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Dec 2001 05:32:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-4.cais.net) (205.252.14.74) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2001 05:32:46 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (dynamic103.cl7.cais.net [205.177.20.103]) by stmpy-4.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fBF5WeH98082; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:32:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011215002544.00bf4220@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:32:07 -0500 To: PILCH Hartmut Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Software Translation of Lojban Cc: , nicholas@uci.edu In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1120595 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab At 08:34 AM 12/14/01 +0100, PILCH Hartmut wrote: > > 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? :) > >If you can just compare the potential of normal machine translation to >that of ll2en translation, that could produce a very helpful paper. Are you aware of Nick's paper on machine translation using Lojban? Nicholas, N. 1996a. Lojban as a Machine Translation Interlanguage in the Pacific. Fourth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Workshop on 'Future Issues for Multilingual Text Processing', Cairns, Australia, 27 August 1996. 31-39. He does not seem to have it on his site, and I don't think he ever sent me a copy, but perhaps one could be dug up if it is relevant. -- 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