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Article #93Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
From: Lee Sau Dan ~{
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00
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>>>>> "John" == John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.co.uk> writes:
John> The problem seems not to arise in pictographic
John> communication. Using colour, lines, shading or any visual
John> effect, you can even indicate 'that part of the palm within
John> 2 cm of the base of the index finger', for which, AFAIK,
John> there is no single word in any language.
Do you think these parameters, namely colour and shading, are suitable
for pictographic communication? Have you consider how easy human
beings can draw the pictographs? How easy can computers receive such
pictographs from a *noisy* channel, where the subtle differences in
colour and shading may be distorted?
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From: sdlee@faith.csis.hku.hk (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Subject: Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
Date: 1999/05/28
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