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From: roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,sci.lang
Subject: Re: language translator
Message-ID: <2893@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 11:52:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.2893
Posted: Mon May  2 07:52:31 1988
References: <808@actnyc.UUCP> <1527@hubcap.UUCP>
Reply-To: roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley)
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Summary: Reference for de Rojas Aymara monograph

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.

>				--Scott Horne

The monograph in question was entitled "Logical and Linguistic Problems of
Social Communication with the Aymara People", by Ivan Guzman de Rojas.

The research was sponsored by the International Development Research Centre
(IDRC), Ottawa, Canada, and bears the reference code: IDRC-MR66e, dated
January 1985.  It also bears the following legend on the cover sheet:

	Material contained in this series is
	normally reproduced as submitted without
	formal peer review or editing.

The postal address of the IDRC is: 280 Albert Street
				   Ottawa, Ontario
				   CANADA

			Telephone: (613) 236-6163

This monograph runs to 166 pages, plus 40 odd pages of appendices and
references.  I must admit that I enjoyed reading it, but I am not myself
convinced of the correctness of the author's views (expressed elsewhere)
of the suitability of Aymara as an MT bridge language.  However, that is
personal bias from someone not active in the MT world; read the paper and
form your own opinion.

Robert_S
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