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Article #139Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
From: Peter
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 00:00
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 > > >--== 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: 100923,f82743ad9aebddde X-Google-Attributes: gid100923,public X-Google-Thread: 107100,f82743ad9aebddde X-Google-Attributes: gid107100,public X-Google-Thread: 107fc6,f82743ad9aebddde X-Google-Attributes: gid107fc6,public From: "Peter" <vidas@globalnet.co.uk> Subject: Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation Date: 1999/05/18 Message-ID: <7hqcls$3qi$1@gxsn.com> X-Deja-AN: 479237636 References: <7ho49v$nmj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@gxsn.com X-Trace: 926987772 1NNUCNF1G8E18C393C gxsn.com Organization: GXSN Newsgroups: sci.lang.translation,comp.ai.nat-lang,cu.ml.linguist-list,alt.language.artificial