Looking to contribute for the Lojban Interface to OpenCog

[Ben Goertzel]

Hi Atindra --

Cool, I'd be psyched to mentor someone work on Lojban... Though I
seem to have forgotten most of the Lojban I knew 7-8 years ago ;( ...
it would be fun to get it back!!

The easiest approach would be to make a Lojban parser output OpenCog
Atoms in Scheme format, see

http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Scheme

for examples...

It seems perhaps the easiest approach would be to start from this LISP
Lojban parser

http://subvert-the-dominant-paradigm.net/~jbominji/jbominji.html

since LISP and Scheme are basically the same. Other useful Lojban
parsing resources are at

http://users.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/lojban/grammar/

thx
Ben


-- Ben


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: atindr...@gmail.com
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> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:35:24 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Looking to contribute for the Lojban Interface to OpenCog
> Hello there!
> I'm an undergraduate student in Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, India, studying Physics and Civil Engineering.
> I'd like to contribute to making the the Lojban interface with OpenCog. I love the idea! It's a natural step forward for Lojban, and I love the concept of communicating with AI in unambiguous language that humans can understand! It's fantastic that OpenCog seems to be taking the lead here.
> I have experience with C, C++ and Python, and understand all major algorithmic implementations.
> I'm currently learning Lojban's grammar and understanding parsing expression grammar, and I'm learning fast, I really want to help.
>
> I have a question about the project:
> "There is a Lojban parser, but it just does grammatical checking, it doesn't export parse structures in a form that can be imported into an AI system like OpenCog."
> What sort of form should I be looking into, that can be imported into OpenCog?
> Any other directions or suggestions on reading up would be very appreciated. Thank you!
>
>



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--
Ben Goertzel, PhD
http://goertzel.org

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw