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This paper presents an overview of ‘Lexpresso’, a Controlled Natural Language developed at the Defence Science & Technology Organisation as a bidirectional natural language interface to a high-level information fusion system. The paper describes Lexpresso’s main features including lexical coverage, expressiveness and range of linguistic syntactic and semantic structures. It also touches on its tight integration with a formal semantic formalism and tentatively classifies it against the PENS system.
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Saulwick, A. (2014). Lexpresso: A Controlled Natural Language. In: Davis, B., Kaljurand, K., Kuhn, T. (eds) Controlled Natural Language. CNL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8625. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10223-8_12
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