Article View: sci.lang.translation
Article #96Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
From: John Woodgate
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00
21 lines
2269 bytes
2269 bytes
<7femk1v6fu.fsf@faith.csis.hku.hk>, Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~}
<sdlee@faith.csis.hku.hk> inimitably wrote:
>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?
I don't expect humans to draw them - computers are much better at that
than most humans. It seems to me that the effect of noisy channels is
applicable to absolutely any form of communication, and is therefore
beside this particular point.
In the novel I cited - 'Eon', by Greg Bear, pictograms are used even for
face-to-face communication, instead of speech. Obviously, this pre-
supposes the availability of sufficient computing power in a suitable-
sized package.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
Phone +44 (0)1268 747839 Fax +44 (0)1268 777124.
Did you hear about the hungry genetic engineer who made a pig of himself?
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<cp603gB14pT3EwsY@jmwa.demon.co.uk>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<7ho49v$nmj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <u+XIi3BEPuS3Ewyn@jmwa.demon.co.uk> <7igr2v$u5v$1@quine.mathcs.duq.edu> <LkKh0gB3vET3EwfS@jmwa.demon.co.uk> <7ik75v$11p$1@quine.mathcs.duq.edu> <LzIRRUA8yjT3EwOk@jmwa.demon.co.uk> <7femk1v6fu.fsf@faith.csis.hku.hk>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 15b514,f82743ad9aebddde X-Google-Attributes: gid15b514,public X-Google-Thread: 107100,f82743ad9aebddde X-Google-Attributes: gid107100,public X-Google-Thread: 107fc6,f82743ad9aebddde X-Google-Attributes: gid107fc6,public X-Google-Thread: 100923,f82743ad9aebddde X-Google-Attributes: gid100923,public From: John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation Date: 1999/05/28 Message-ID: <cp603gB14pT3EwsY@jmwa.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 483241155 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jmwa.demon.co.uk:158.152.135.100 References: <7ho49v$nmj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <u+XIi3BEPuS3Ewyn@jmwa.demon.co.uk> <7igr2v$u5v$1@quine.mathcs.duq.edu> <LkKh0gB3vET3EwfS@jmwa.demon.co.uk> <7ik75v$11p$1@quine.mathcs.duq.edu> <LzIRRUA8yjT3EwOk@jmwa.demon.co.uk> <7femk1v6fu.fsf@faith.csis.hku.hk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 927923333 nnrp-11:3431 NO-IDENT jmwa.demon.co.uk:158.152.135.100 Organization: JMWA Electronics Consultancy MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.lang.translation,comp.ai.nat-lang,cu.ml.linguist-list,alt.language.artificial