Conlang Alternatives

conlang reviews and mentions

• I think Prolog may be able to help me with this, but I need to be pointed in the right direction
  1 project | /r/prolog | 23 May 2023

  Prolog is a good idea here. I've done some similar stuff myself, although nothing as ambitious as a true agglutinative language. The main example I have that is "complete" is my processing of Tolkien's "black speech". However, this does very minimal parsing of the words, so it uses atom_concat/3 rather than phrase/3 for the morphology.

• Are DCGs useful for anything but linguistics?
  2 projects | /r/prolog | 28 Oct 2021

  I don't think much actual modern linguistics is done with Prolog and DCGs. I think of this as a very "classical" approach to AI, which is fun to do on the side (blackspeech.pl) but not highly relevant to modern computational linguistics which is largely statistical machine learning.

• Has anyone attempted to create an automatic translator for your conlang? What was your experience?
  1 project | /r/conlangs | 25 Feb 2021

  This doesn't necessarily count because the work is for conlangs, but not my conlangs. I have worked on a few; the most complete is probably my one-ring Black Speech translator which works only because the corpus for this is so small. As you can see, it still requires a fairly hefty amount of code.

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