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Hello all!
Rick,
I already knew that Katanda was replaced by Nasendi! I was only saying that
I
was surprised because nobody was sending messages, specially when your
project is at a very important phase... Should this group be renamed to
Nasendi?...
I take this opportunity to ask you again some questions which you didn't
answered and some new others.
The first one is:
Why don't you make a service available at Nasendi's web-site
capable of doing translations from Nasendi/Katanda to English? Although it
seems
to me that it is best for you to outcast the program under Gnu Public
Licence (GPL),
you may make available only the service, or the executable... Is your
current
translation software good enough?
I also asked you about which programming language did you use to build the
software (Prolog, C?) and also which "translation system" (transfer...
etc.)? (I
love Haskell, a pure functional programming language, (www.haskell.org),
but
perhaps this is not the best one suited for machine translation (MT)...)
I would also like to make you other questions:
When you revealed that "katanda is dead, long live nensendi ('sic')" (you
did
well renaming nensendi to nasendi..), in my mind (and probably in the mind
of others in this group) one doubt showed up: since several flaws were
discovered in the design of Katanda, what guaranty (/guarantee?/warranty??)
do we have that Nasendi has no flaws at all? More generally, is it not
necessary, first of all, to prove that it is possible to design a language
(Nasendi, in particular) which will function perfectly well in MT??... If
you
don't prove that, could not the design of Nasendi (or any other else) be a
loss
of time? Are you sure that Nasendi has no possible flaws?.. If that is the
case
and you can show such a proof, then this is a great discovery useful to
mankind.. :)
I haven't analysed Nasendi enough to be sure that its syntax can be
captured by
a program written in YACC/bison. What do you say about this, Rick?
Do you think that an optimally MT-designed language is good as an auxiliary
international language, or otherwise it has certain characteristics which
make
it too "heavy" for that purpose?
I am sorry for the extent of this message and for my english errors, but I
think
that your answers to my questions can make better our knowledge of the
effectiveness of Nasendi and clear what can we expect of your very
promising
project...
Thanks,
Pedro, from Portugal.
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