Recently I was checking up on some AI possibilities and found out about babel-lang, which seems to be an interesting concept.
The project appears to be abandoned but the concept is quite interesting.
It offers a babel > english translator and a good spec to do so, but no way to do the oposite.
I was wondering how one could go about making an english > babel translator.
From what I can think of, the only way is to have a large set of verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc which can then be used translate the sentence into babel.
Is this really the only (or best) way?
Babel is my little project. It’s correct that there hasn’t been any work done to the project in a long time. I still hope to pick it up again though.
An english->babel translator would be awesome and I would love to see such a project. But the difficulty of the problem is the entirety of Natural Language Processing. In theory an NLP parsing engine could be modified to output babel.
The whole point of the babel project is to “divide the problem” cleanly. By having the user write what they really mean (aka babel code), then we don’t have to worry about the NLP problems and can instead focus on the real problem of creating and manipulating thoughts.
Bryan