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Controlled Natural Language

Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, CNL 2009, Marettimo Island, Italy, June 8-10, 2009, Revised Papers

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5972)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): CNL: International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language

Conference proceedings info: CNL 2009.

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Language Aspects

    1. Talking Rabbit: A User Evaluation of Sentence Production

      • Paula Engelbrecht, Glen Hart, Catherine Dolbear
      Pages 56-64
    2. Naturalness vs. Predictability: A Key Debate in Controlled Languages

      • Peter Clark, William R. Murray, Phil Harrison, John Thompson
      Pages 65-81
    3. Implementing Controlled Languages in GF

      • Krasimir Angelov, Aarne Ranta
      Pages 82-101
    4. Polysemy in Controlled Natural Language Texts

      • Normunds Gruzitis, Guntis Barzdins
      Pages 102-120
    5. Controlled English Ontology-Based Data Access

      • Camilo Thorne, Diego Calvanese
      Pages 135-154
    6. SBVR’s Approach to Controlled Natural Language

      • Silvie Spreeuwenberg, Keri Anderson Healy
      Pages 155-169
  3. Tools and Applications

    1. The Naproche Project Controlled Natural Language Proof Checking of Mathematical Texts

      • Marcos Cramer, Bernhard Fisseni, Peter Koepke, Daniel Kühlwein, Bernhard Schröder, Jip Veldman
      Pages 170-186
    2. On Designing Controlled Natural Languages for Semantic Annotation

      • Brian Davis, Pradeep Dantuluri, Laura Dragan, Siegfried Handschuh, Hamish Cunningham
      Pages 187-205
    3. Development of a Controlled Natural Language Interface for Semantic MediaWiki

      • Paul R. Smart, Jie Bao, Dave Braines, Nigel R. Shadbolt
      Pages 206-225
    4. A Controlled Language for the Specification of Contracts

      • Gordon J. Pace, Michael Rosner
      Pages 226-245
    5. Rabbit to OWL: Ontology Authoring with a CNL-Based Tool

      • Ronald Denaux, Vania Dimitrova, Anthony G. Cohn, Catherine Dolbear, Glen Hart
      Pages 246-264
    6. Writing Clinical Practice Guidelines in Controlled Natural Language

      • Richard N. Shiffman, George Michel, Michael Krauthammer, Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, Tobias Kuhn
      Pages 265-280
  4. What Are Controlled Natural Languages?

    1. On Controlled Natural Languages: Properties and Prospects

      • Adam Wyner, Krasimir Angelov, Guntis Barzdins, Danica Damljanovic, Brian Davis, Norbert Fuchs et al.
      Pages 281-289
  5. Back Matter

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About this book

Controlled natural languages (CNLs) are subsets of natural languages, obtained by - stricting the grammar and vocabulary in order to reduce or eliminate ambiguity and complexity. Traditionally, controlled languagesfall into two major types: those that - prove readability for human readers, and those that enable reliable automatic semantic analysis of the language. [. . . ] The second type of languages has a formal logical basis, i. e. they have a formal syntax and semantics, and can be mapped to an existing formal language, such as ?rst-order logic. Thus, those languages can be used as knowledge representation languages, and writing of those languages is supported by fully au- matic consistency and redundancy checks, query answering, etc. Wikipedia Variouscontrollednatural languagesof the second type have been developedby a n- ber of organizations, and have been used in many different application domains, most recently within the Semantic Web. The workshop CNL 2009 was dedicated to discussing the similarities and the d- ferences of existing controlled natural languages of the second type, possible impro- ments to these languages, relations to other knowledge representation languages, tool support, existing and future applications, and further topics of interest.

Keywords

  • CNL
  • Clang
  • Natural
  • computational linguistics
  • forrmal mathematics
  • knowledge bases
  • language technologies

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Informatics & Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

    Norbert E. Fuchs

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