Controlled Natural Language
Author | : Norbert E Fuchs |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2010-07-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783642144189 |
ISBN-13 | : 3642144187 |
Rating | : 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Download or read book Controlled Natural Language written by Norbert E Fuchs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.