Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!fortune!polard From: polard@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: natural languages as interlinguas fo Message-ID: <4377@fortune.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 19:03:53 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.4377 Posted: Mon Oct 1 19:03:53 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 05:45:26 EDT Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 25 Nf-ID: #R:sri-arpa:-1245500:fortune:21500011:000:771 Nf-From: fortune!polard Oct 1 13:37:00 1984 ***** fortune:net.ai / sri-arpa!ARPA / 2:59 pm Sep 30, 1984 From: Rick BriggsThere is a natural language which was spoken between 1000 B.C. and 1900 A.D. which was used amongst a scientific community, and which was ambiguity free(in some senses syntax-free) and which fascilitated automatic inference. *** >I have shown this well-developed system to be equivalent to >certain semantic net systems, and in some cases the ancient language >is even more specific. >The language is an obscure branch of Indo-Iranian of which there >are no translations, but the originals are extant. Could you post what this language was, and where you have written up your findings? Thank you. Henry Polard {ihnp4,amd}!fortune!polard