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From: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,sci.lang
Subject: Re: language translator
Message-ID: <861@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 19:56:31 GMT
References: <808@actnyc.UUCP> <1527@hubcap.UUCP>
Reply-To: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Organization: InterACT Corporation
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In article <1527@hubcap.UUCP> shorne@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>From article <808@actnyc.UUCP>, by gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch):
>> ... Sr. Guzman
>> published a monograph several years ago on the peculiar logic of
>> the Aymara language, which he found to utilize polyvalent logic,
>> and theorized that it might be a vehicle -- or perhaps I should
>> say catalyst -- for the machine translation of natural languages.
>> If there is any interest I will dig out the book and put the address
>> of its publisher (an agency of the Canadian government) on the net.
>
>Please do put more information about this book on the net.

The title of the book, in English, is

     Logical and Linguistic Problems of Social Communications
       with the Aymara People
      ,      ,
by  Ivan Guzman de Rojas.  This is a straight translation of the
Spanish title.

I obtained Spanish and English versions of the book from:

     International Development Research Centre
     P.O.Box 8500
     Ottawa, Ontario k1g 3h9
     Canada.

They have i.d. codes for the books, of course: IDRC-MR66e for the
English version, and IDRC-MR66s for the Spanish.  I ordered the books
by telephone, but I've misplaced the number.  I think they were free.

I have a reprint of a New York Times article by Marlise Simons
which describes the book briefly, and I'll send a copy of it to
anyone who wants it and can email or post a US mail address.