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Article #107Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
From: kyan1
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:00
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mike_adams61@hotmail.com wrote: > [..] Why not have the middle lingo be one of visual means.. > [..] > Did you go to the store? > picture of you, picture of store, question mark. > [..] > Mike Adams Hey, this is cool!! I support this idea to be used in the new language, but Im not sure how much agreement can be achieved. 1) I just realized that, the problem of assigning "words" to "things" is, mathematically, like trying to partition a space. "speech" + "picture" = 2 dimensions. Romance languages use sound exclusively. The relation between sound and meaning is almost arbitrary. So, is it possible to merge a pictorial lang with a sound lang? 2) in order to solve the "lexicon" problem, some "standard" language must be used to talk about the words. That means existing languages. This creates trouble -- which language is the standard reference?? But the pictorial approach avoids this problem by using a "building" process, sort of like children's learning. I think this is cool. For example, pictures can be up-loaded to web-sites for other users to down-load. Im writing a more detailed post now. Your idea is great. Thanks John Woodgate for quoting the Sci-Fi source also. - Yan King Yin Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 15b514,f82743ad9aebddde X-Google-Attributes: gid15b514,public X-Google-Thread: 107100,f82743ad9aebddde X-Google-Attributes: gid107100,public X-Google-Thread: 100923,f82743ad9aebddde X-Google-Attributes: gid100923,public X-Google-Thread: 107fc6,f82743ad9aebddde X-Google-Attributes: gid107fc6,public From: kyan1@hofstra.edu Subject: Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation Date: 1999/06/01 Message-ID: <7j05vn$sr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Deja-AN: 484374290 References: <7ho49v$nmj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <01bea217$4218c660$54c011ac@ws6147> <7f3e0spise.fsf@faith.csis.hku.hk> <374476c8.0@news.kabsi.at> <927263576.776.5@news.remarQ.com> <3745e764.0@news.kabsi.at> <374832D9.D9F2F825@uaf.edu> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x45.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 147.4.251.253 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Jun 01 08:35:03 1999 GMT Newsgroups: sci.lang.translation,comp.ai.nat-lang,cu.ml.linguist-list,alt.language.artificial X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/3.04Gold (Win95; U)