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  • Machine Translation and Automating the Preservation of Endangered Langu

    From mentificium@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 15 19:28:31 2020
    Abstract: A method is proposed not only for the preservation of endangered languages by embedding them in an AI Mind, but for automating the process of preservation by means of a computer program that interactively acquires pertinent data from a speaker
    or preservationist of an endangered language and automatically generates the computer source code of a bilingual AI Mind fluent in both English and the endangered language.

    Alphabet in Unicode: The APEL program shall ask the user to identify the particular Unicode alphabet in which the vocabulary and syntax of the target language shall be couched.

    Vocabulary: The program shall prompt the user to enter common words in the target language, with or without their English translation. If possible, all known conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns of the target language shall be entered. An attempt
    shall be made to enter the entire known vocabulary of the target language, or at least the words most frequently used by a native speaker.

    Syntax: The program shall invite the user to provide sample sentences in the target language for various purposes.

    Examples of syntax
    Famous sayings
    Information about the self of the AI Mind
    Potential information about a human user
    Sample premises for Logical Inference

    Purposes: Although the raison d'etre of the APEL program is to rescue and preserve an endangered human language, obviously the program may also be used to generate an AI Mind thinking and conversing in a popular human language spoken by millions of
    persons and not at all threatened with imminent extinction.

    Enterprising individuals may create smartphone apps (applications) that guide the user through the steps of creating an AI Mind in any target language, such as already exist in Russian and in Latin.

    If the AI Mind created in the target language includes conceptual cross-references between two human languages, the AI software may be designed as an instrument of machine translation.

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    https://ai.neocities.org/APEL.html -- Automating Preservation of Endangered Languages
    https://medium.com/p/c14c9ee1c249 -- Automating the Preservation of Endangered Languages
    https://medium.com/p/9d7a732a4ee1 -- Machine Translation by Artificial Intelligence
    https://old.reddit.com/r/endangeredlanguages

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