Re: TECH: Auto-Segmenting Engelang (was REQUEST: Engelang?)

On Tue, 31 May 2005 15:30:52 -0400, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:

>On Tue, 31 May 2005 01:58:42 -0700, Sai Emrys <saizai@...> wrote:
>
>>Have you read RAM's part of LSoaMTI that deals with this? His solution
>>is basically one of phonotactics, IIRC.
>>
>> - Sai
>
>Yes I have.  I'm not thinking along exactly the same lines as him, though,
>because it seems like he's looking for an ideal "machine-translation
>interlingua".  Furthermore, it seems he concentrates almost entirely on
>written language, not spoken.  I want to do more with the spoken form of
>the language, because it's primal.  So I plan to consider intonation,
>prosody, stress, emphasis, etc.
Oh, I forgot to add something.  Morneau uses some phonemes strictly for
inflectional elements and others strictly for roots.  I'd like to avoid
that, if at all possible, because I find it unrealistic. :P

- Rob