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In a previous article, hamilton@crl.nmsu.edu (Jim Hamilton) says:

>         7th International Conference on Theoretical and
>           Methodological Issues in Machine Translation

>                    Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
>                       July 24 - 28, 1997

> Paper Submission DEADLINE:                February 17, 1997
> Further details:        http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/TMI/
> Inquiries:              hamilton@crl.nmsu.edu

To which Project Mentifex piggybacks a linguistic theory of mind:

  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ Public-Domain Machine Translation /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\          polyglot  ________     /  auditory   \
|      /--------|-------\  AI      / syntax \   | speech stream |
|      |  recog-|nition |   mind   \________/<--|-------------\ |
|   ___|___     |       |  flush-vector|  spiral|    _______  | |
|  /image  \    |     __V___        ___V___ loop|   /stored \ | |
| / percept \   |    /deep  \<-----/lexical\<---|--/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /<--|-->/concepts\--->/concepts \---|->\ of words/  |
|  \_______/    |   \________/    \_________/   |   \_______/   |

The ultimate machine translation device will be an AI mind fluent
in the several target languages for which translation is desired.

Please notice in the mind-diagram above that the depicted node of
a Chomskyan syntax tree flushes out lexical concepts situated be-
tween the nonlinguistic deep concepts of fundamental epistemology
and the phonemic strings of words in the auditory memory channel.

If a machine intelligence speaks two languages, there will be two
sets of syntactic trees (one for each language) flushing out dual
sets of vocabulary, both native and foreign, mixed and commingled
in the middle depth of the mind, but logically segregated by dint
of the associative tags across which AI brainstorms wax and wane.
