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Complete Lojban Language Chunked
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Formal morphology #444

Open Wuzzy2 opened 3 years ago

Wuzzy2 commented 3 years ago

The morphology never has been really formalized, hasn't it?

While for e.g. gismu it's easy, it is not 100% clear which words are actually valid fu'ivla and cmevla. As a result, many parsers seem to disagree on what is a valid cmevla, and what isn't. That's a big problem.

I suggest to include a formal morpholgy in the CLL. Given that a formal grammar is one of Lojban's main “selling points”, I think this is pretty important.

The goal here is: Given a random string of Lojban characters, it should always be possible to unambigiously tell if that's a valid Lojban word or not, and if it is, what kind of word it is.

lagleki commented 3 years ago

There is BPFK morphology but it differs from the cll one in some aspects

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021, 19:35 Wuzzy notifications@github.com wrote:

The morphology never has been really formalized, hasn't it?

While for e.g. gismu it's easy, it is not 100% clear which words are actually valid fu'ivla and cmevla. As a result, many parsers seem to disagree on what is a valid cmevla, and what isn't. That's a big problem.

I suggest to include a formal morpholgy in the CLL. Given that a formal grammar is one of Lojban's main “selling points”, I think this is pretty important.

The goal here is: Given a random string of Lojban characters, it should always be possible to unambigiously tell if that's a valid Lojban word or not, and if it is, what kind of word it is.

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