‘ROILA (Robot Interaction Language)’

[iesk]

Hello.

I found this project (http://roila.org/) kind of interesting as its goals seem to overlap somewhat with one of the (historical?) goals of our language (ie man-machine communication—I don’t get what it is really about, but apparently the guy can voice-navigate his Lego NXT, which may be scientificly pointless but is cool anyway). Also, Loglan is mentioned/commented on in the paper: http://www.bartneck.de/publications/2011/robotInteractionLanguage/OmarMubin-ROILA.pdf

I did not read the computery stuff, but the language design itself seems … odd at least. The relevant chapter in the thesis contains surprising design decisions and apparent non-sequiturs. Just look at the resulting phoneme on p. 23. I may judge the project unfairly, though. As I said, I didn’t read it throrougly.

Anyway, maybe it is of interest to the Lojban community.

By the way, does anybody know if anybody ever did Lojban (Loglan) voice recognition?

iesk

PS: I apologise for writing in English.