From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Dec 02 12:58:20 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 2 Dec 2002 20:58:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 45902 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2002 20:58:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Dec 2002 20:58:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Dec 2002 20:58:20 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA25764; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:10:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200212022110.QAA25764@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:55:31 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Why we should cancel the vote or all vote NO (was RE: Official Statement- LLG Board approves new baseline policRO To: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk (And Rosta) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:55:31 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: from "And Rosta" at Dec 02, 2002 07:02:36 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan And Rosta scripsit: > I don't have the skills to write a parser. I'm a formal linguist, not > a computational linguist. I'm happy to advise you on how I think the > parser should work, if you are suggesting that a new parser should be > written. It is trivial to modify the current parser to accept new cmavo for existing selma'o, at least if they have CVV or CV'V shapes, and fairly easy to add a new shape as well. Indeed, the parser can be made to emit a cmavo list (without definitions, of course) using the -c switch, reflecting its beliefs about cmavo->selma'o mapping. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is dramatically overdescribed. Still other languages are simultaneously overdescribed and underdescribed. Welsh pertains to the third category. --Alan King