From lojbab@lojban.org Sun Mar 12 12:24:59 2000 Received: (qmail 6813 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2000 20:24:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 Mar 2000 20:24:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy.cais.net) (199.0.216.101) by mta2.onelist.org with SMTP; 12 Mar 2000 20:24:16 -0000 Received: from bob (dynamic61.cais.com [207.226.56.61]) by stmpy.cais.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13825; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:23:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000312151911.00b94f00@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:22:52 -0500 To: Cyril Slobin , lojban@onelist.com Subject: Re: [lojban] morphology In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-eGroups-From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 11:02 PM 03/12/2000 +0300, Cyril Slobin wrote: >la lojbab. cusku di'e: > > Here is the last draft I have of the Lojban morphology algorithm, > > dated 7 June 92. > > > Morphology Algorithm > > Draft 4.0 > >There is newer version on lojban.org site, > > > Morphology Algorithm > > Internal Revision 4.1, 8 June 1992 > >It is inside archive named brkwords.zip together with word-breaking >program (ms-dos executable and incomplete pascal source). Oops - I had thought there might be one in brkwords, but I didn't look in the zip file. >Texts of 4.0 and 4.1 versions are different, but I believe there are >clarifications and editorial changes, not changes of algorithm itself. >However I haven't compared them thoroughly to be really sure. I am sure there is a minor change, probably some bug she found in testing. Nora did not generate new versions just for editorial purposes. >Also I believe the pascal program implements an algorithm described in >english text, but again I haven't made thorough verification. It is supposed to, but at the time, we did not have the wherewithal to do a proper test - the number of possible cases is too large, even with a relatively small test string (say 20 characters or less). 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 (newly updated!)