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Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation

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From: Peter
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 00:00
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A 25-page outline of Sapuno Deveru - the new World Language is available
for your consideration at this web site:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~vidas/sdwp6.htm

Comments or queries of any type are welcome, and will be dealt with as
expeditiously as possiblle
A new web page will be posted shortly, which will include a 1000-word
vocabulary.

Many thanks to.all of you who have sent me your comments and queries.

Peter


kyan1@hofstra.edu wrote in message <7ho49v$nmj$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>Here is a more detailed explanation:
>
>(1) natural language <--> natural language translation is a
>difficult problem for machines because, basically, machines
>cannot understand the meaning of texts, at least not with
>current technology.  my idea is to remove the "semantic"
>part of this problem so that the remaining task for the
>computer is reduced to syntax / transliteration aspects,
>things that computers do well.  strange as it may sound,
>the point is to make _humans_ adapt to computers.
>
>(2) one consequence of this is the automatic no-nonsense
>translation of documents by computers, provided an original
>has been created according to the protocol.  this means
>making "translation engines" for each natural language.
>moreover, a word processor can hook up the translator so
>that side-by-side editing is possible.  this greatly
>increases the ease of usage.
>
>(3) the development of this language (and probably afew
>experimental "versions" of it) can employ the procedures
>used by the (quite famous) "Linux operating system" if
>you know what Im talking about.  Basically this means all
>the details of the design is maintained on a web-site and
>are open to modification by all participants.
>
>(4) esperanto will be considered.  myself, i dont know
>much about this language right now.  but if you look at
>the way computer languages used to be developed, you'd
>agree much experimentation and improvements will be
>needed before a workable version is born.  even then
>they're constantly evolving.
>
>(5) Ive received some responses and will get the mailing
>list up soon --  thanks!!  in the meantime we can discuss
>in the newsgroups i guess :)
>
>Yan King Yin  http://members.tripod.com/kickle
>
>
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From: "Peter" <vidas@globalnet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
Date: 1999/05/18
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