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Hi all, I am a Lojban newbie but am speculatively considering using Lojban within my AI project, Novamente (see www.agiri.org). Novamente has some English language comprehension ability but I think it would be interesting to try teaching it in a simpler language, and Lojban would be great because its predicate logic syntax is not too far off from Novamente's internal "probabilistic term logic" syntax. However, Novamente's current NLP framework uses a form of grammar called "link grammar", see http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/ which is quite different from the BNF or PEG formats that I've seen used for specifying Lojban grammar. I am curious for opinions from Lojban grammar experts on how viable it would be to create a link grammar for Lojban. Of course, if I knew Lojban I could assess this for myself, but I'm trying to assess whether I should take the time to learn it -- which depends largely on whether I want to use it in Novamente, which depends largely on whether it's viable to make a Lojban link grammar ;-) Thanks! Ben Goertzel www.goertzel.org www.agiri.org www.biomind.com