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Re:Ithkuil, the Most Complicated Language by kortex on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:46AM (#36046027)
Fluency in Ithkuil is probably impossible practically speaking. John Quijada himself doesn't consider himself fluent.

I actually think LLMs trained on conlangs is a super cool idea, but you'd need a huge corpus to do that. Kind of a bootstrapping problem.

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Re:Ithkuil, the Most Complicated Language by fsiefken on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:48PM (#36049920)
The new 2023 Ithkuil addresses part of the learnability. Yes I need a large corpus, that’s why I thought maybe some kind of rough automatic translator can be built to aid in getting this body and the LLM trained
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Re:Ithkuil, the Most Complicated Language by ted_dunning on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:41PM (#36050572)
But that will only train the LLM on Ithkuil expressions that came from English (or whatever you translated from). The interesting point is the expressivity beyond that.
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