>> What do you all think ? > > Hello Jean-Christophe, > > Well you asked for it... ;-)
Nick, Thanks for the enthousiastic reply :) > For starters, perhaps you could dig up some dirt on Kyoto Common Lisp > for the Common Lisp Dictionary? Maybe you want to clarify your thoughts here... > If you're looking to get a feel for the Japanese lisp community I did take a look at those a while ago, but to tell you the truth it really is Chinese for me at this point :) Also, for now, I am thinking more in terms of what _Gardeners_ feel concerned about. So if a "gardened" project has a specific document they need to know more about I can help. Besides, the Franz Japanese reference you gave me is most probably aligned to the English one so I don't suppose there is much to check there for you guys. > Also, maybe paulgraham.com has some lisp-centric essays waiting for > you ;-) (of course I'd ask him first) Keep in mind that I make a living by translating ;) And I also have 2 kids to feed and a wife who is constantly checking my volunteer activities... So right now I am ready to do stuff for the list members within the context of the list purpose :) If you think translating one of Paul Graham's essays fits this description I'm ready to start if you provide me with a document. > There are some great people out there doing work with natural > languages with lisp (if that is your interest), maybe you could find > inspiration there? > > Off the top of my head I can remember Albert Yeap (GOFAI) and also the > LangUtils guys from ILC 2005 > (http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2005/speakers.html) > > Also the CLIMACS people (http://common-lisp.net/project/climacs/) > would probably be interested in someone helping develop a natural > language parser for the project... Cool stuff, I am actually looking for people who can do that in J... (I did not say it) for a translation assisting tool I work with/for. We need language modules for fuzzy matching in the source segments :) > ...wow... I'll bet you'll never ask for ideas for things to do on a > public list again ;-) You know what ? I do user support/volunteer coordination for the (open source) application I mention above so I know exactly what I'd say if I were in your position :) > Anyways, It's cool you want to help. I think most of all just learn > (or keep learning) lisp and everything else will come. That is what I try to convince myself of. Instead of writing the few utilities in Perl, I am looking at the PCL code so that I get inspiration to write my stuff in Lisp... Thanks again. Jean-Christophe _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
