CNL2009
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| CNL2009 | |
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Workshop on Controlled Natural Language
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| Start | Jun 8 2009 (iCal) |
| End | Jun 10 2009 |
| Homepage: | attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2009 |
| Location | |
| City: | Marettimo |
| Country: | Italy |
| Important dates | |
| Papers due: | Nov 23 2008 |
| Notification: | Jan 9 2009 |
| Camera ready due: | Mar 13 2009 |
CNL 2009, the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, is dedicated to discussing the latest results on controlled natural languages.
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[edit] Introduction
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language):
Controlled natural languages (CNLs) are subsets of natural languages, obtained by restricting the grammar and vocabulary in order to reduce or eliminate ambiguity and complexity. Traditionally, controlled languages fall into two major types: those that improve 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 first-order logic. Thus, those languages can be used as knowledge representation languages, and writing of those languages is supported by fully automatic consistency and redundancy checks, query answering, etc.
Various controlled natural languages of the second type have been developed by a number of organisations, and have been used in many different application domains, most recently within the semantic web.
This workshop is dedicated to discussing the similarities and differences of existing controlled natural languages of the second type, possible improvements to these languages, relations to other knowledge representation languages, tool support, existing and future applications, and further topics of interest.
[edit] Topics
CNL 2009 will address the following aspects of controlled natural languages (CNLs):
- design of CNLs
- parsing of CNLs
- CNLs for knowledge representation
- CNLs for specifications
- CNLs and the semantic web
- CNLs as user interface
- CNLs for interaction and communication
- tool support for CNLs
- reasoning in CNLs
- comparisons of CNLs
- applications of CNLs
- business rules
- user studies
- theoretical results
- etc.
[edit] Important Dates
- deadline for submissions of extended abstracts: 23 November 2008
- notification of acceptance of extended abstracts: 9 January 2009
- participants contact Marettimo Residence concerning accommodation: end of January 2009
- revised versions of extended abstracts: 13 March 2009
- workshop: 8-10 June 2009
- deadline of submission of full papers: 4 August 2009
- feedback on full papers: 2 October 2009
- revised versions of full papers: 6 November 2009
[edit] Program Committee
- Piero Bonatti (University of Naples, Italy)
- Johan Bos (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
- Peter E. Clark (Boeing, Seattle, USA)
- Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Enrico Franconi (University of Bolzano, Italy)
- Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland) (chair)
- Glen Hart (Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK)
- Jerry R. Hobbs (USC/ISI, USA)
- Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Peter Koepke (University of Bonn, Germany)
- Tobias Kuhn (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Ian Pratt-Hartmann (University of Manchester, UK)
- Stephen Pulman (University of Oxford, UK)
- Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta)
- Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
- John Sowa (VivoMind, USA)
- Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Uta Schwertel (imc, Germany)
- Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
