As we embark on more seriously using Lojban within OpenCog... and
prepare to embark on putting Chinese there ... I have realized it may
be bad that WordNode currently is language-independent...
I guess this is probably not the right design (and is a reflection of
the fact that we've only dealt with English in the Atomspace so
far)...
A short-term hack to fix this would be to introduce e.g.
EnglishWordNode, ChineseWordNode, etc. as subtypes of WordNode.
A less annoying fix ("annoying" because the proliferation of
hard-wired Atom types is annoying) would be to complete the ProtoAtom
implementation (not fundamentally hard to do, just tedious), which
would allow us to have ProtoAtoms indicating "English" and "Chinese"
etc. and link them from WordNodes to indicate the language they
correspond to....
We should discuss moving forward on ProtoAtom during the Cogathon...
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Ben Goertzel, PhD
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everyone is headed, so you can go in the opposite direction. Don’t
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