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   One  of  the  many  things which combine to make lojban The Best Thing
   Ever  (ignoring  for  now  all  the  ways  in  which  it is crappy and
   annoying)  is  its syntactic unambiguity. That is - grammatical lojban
   sentences can be parsed mechanically, and any grammatical sentence has
   a  unique syntactical interpretation for the parser to determine. This
   means that one of the major hurdles natural language processing has to
   overcome  is  removed.  Or  more  accurately, the hurdle is moved from
   computer  to  speaker  - rather than try to make computers intelligent
   enough  to  understand  human  speech,  we make humans speak more like
   computers would like them to. The side-effect being of course, given a
   drop  of  Sapir  and  a ts. of Whorf, that humans end up thinking more
   like computers. Which I for one consider highly funky...

   But  anyway,  the  point  is that this should be a boon for IF. Except
   actually, the more I think about it the less I think it is. But at the
   least,  it  provides  a  nice  testbed for devoping computer-lojbanist
   interaction,  and  yet  another  domain to to try to twist Inform into
   handling.  Lojbanic  IF  is  also  a  great learning tool, for obvious
   reasons.

   I  haven't actually done much work on this yet, though I have plans...
   However,  I helped Robin Lee Powell get the first step in place in the
   form  of  the  Lojban  language  definition files, in which I tried to
   provide  a  few hooks for future deeper parsing. The best place to get
   them  -  and  also  nuntalyli'u,  being the translation into lojban of
   Adventure - is from the lojban wiki:
   www.lojban.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Files/Programs.

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