Re: Unambiguous languages (was: EU allumettes)

* And Rosta said on 2004-05-06 05:02:33 +0200
> Ray:
> > On Tuesday, May 4, 2004, at 12:43 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> > > The price of infinite precision is infinite verbosity.
> > But if And is interested in highly disambiguated communication,
> > then Classical Yiklamu's claims should surely be examined:
> >
> > "Classical Yiklamu is an artificially constructed language. Its purpose is
> > to enable interested users to explore the possibilities of  highly
> > disambiguated verbal communication."
>
> I may have mixed CY up with another conlang in my memory, but my
> recollection is that it adopts Word Net as the inventory of its
> word senses. By so doing, it gets rid of ambiguity arising from
> polysemy.
It gets rid of *English* polysemy. WordNet is not a 100% language-
neutral ontology after all, as a look at EuroWordNet quickly proves.

Play with the english-spanish-catalan-basque wordnet at:
http://sisx03.si.ehu.es/tresnak/wwni/index.htm

Here's the result for "hartu" in the Basque Wordnet with multilingual
on. Compare number of synonyms.
http://sisx03.si.ehu.es/cgi-bin/wwni/adierak.pl?hitza=hartu&wn=ba&multi=on


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