06.09.2010

[20.09.2010] Talk: Controlled Natural Languages for Knowledge Representation

Speaker: Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University, Sydney

Date: Montag, 20. September, 2010
Time: 16:15 h
Room: Raum 2.A.10, Institut für Computerlinguistik, Binzmühlestrasse 14

Abstract

Over the past 10 years or so, a number of machine-oriented controlled natural languages have emerged that can be used as high-level interface languages to various kinds of knowledge systems. These languages are relevant to the area of computational linguistics since they have two very interesting properties: firstly, they look informal like natural languages and are therefore easier to write and understand by humans than formal languages; secondly, they are precisely defined subsets of natural languages and can be translated automatically (and often deterministically) into a formal target language and then be used for automated reasoning.

I will present and compare the most mature of these novel languages, show how they can balance the disadvantages of natural languages and formal languages for knowledge representation, and discuss how domain specialists can be supported writing specifications in controlled natural language.

Stefanos Petrakis

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[20.09.2010] Talk: Controlled Natural Languages for Knowledge Representation

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