CNL 2014 - Fourth Workshop on Controlled Natural Language

Fourth Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2014)
Co-located with COLING 2014
20?22 August 2014
Galway, Ireland
This workshop on controlled natural language (CNL) has a broad scope and embraces all approaches that are based on natural language and apply restrictions on vocabulary, grammar, and/or semantics. This includes (but is certainly not limited to) approaches that have been called simplified language, plain language, formalized language, processable language, fragments of language, phraseologies, conceptual authoring, language generation, and guided natural language interfaces.
Some CNLs are designed to improve communication among humans, especially for non-native speakers of the respective natural language. In other cases, the restrictions on the language are supposed to make it easier for computers to analyze such texts in order to improve computer-aided, semi-automatic, or automatic translations into other languages. A third group of CNL has the goal to enable reliable automated reasoning and formal knowledge representation from seemingly natural texts. All these types of CNL are covered by this workshop.
Topics
Possible topics for CNL 2014 include:
CNL for knowledge representation
CNL for query interfaces
CNL for specifications
CNL for business rules
CNL for dialogue systems
CNL for machine translation
CNL for improved understandability of texts
CNL for natural language generation
design of CNLs
CNL applications
CNL evaluation
usability and acceptance of CNL
CNL grammars and lexica
multilingual CNLs
reasoning in CNL
spoken CNL
CNL in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data
CNL in the government
CNL in industry
CNL use cases
theoretical properties of CNL
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 14 March 2014
Notification of acceptance: 12 May 2014
Deadline for revised papers: 9 June 2014
Workshop: 20?22 August 2014
Submissions and Proceedings
We invite researchers to submit papers with novel contributions in the area of CNL. These research papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format and should not exceed 10 pages. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair conference system.
Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings to be published by Springer in their LNCS/LNAI series and indexed in all major citation databases including ISI Web of Science and Scopus.
Venue
The workshop takes place in Ireland at INSIGHT-AT-NUI Galway (formerly DERI).
Organization Committee
Brian Davis (INSIGHT-AT-NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Tobias Kuhn (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Program Committee
Krasimir Angelov (Chalmers University, Sweden)
Johan Bos (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Paul Buitelaar (INSIGHT-AT-NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
Olga Caprotti (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Rogan Creswick (Galois, USA)
Danica Damljanovic (University of Sheffield, UK)
Brian Davis (INSIGHT-AT-NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
Ronald Denaux (iSOCO, Spain)
Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)
Ramona Enache (Chalmers University, Sweden)
Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey)
Sébastien Ferré (University Rennes 1, France)
Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Normunds Grūzītis (University of Latvia)
Siegfried Handschuh (INSIGHT-AT-NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
Stefan Höfler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Peter Koepke (University of Bonn, Germany)
Tobias Kuhn (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Hans Leiß (University of Munich, Germany)
Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Adegboyega Ojo (INSIGHT-AT-NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
Gordon Pace (University of Malta)
Richard Power (The Open University, UK)
Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa)
Allan Ramsay (University of Manchester, UK)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA)
Irina Temnikova (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Allan Third (The Open University, UK)
Camilo Thorne (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT, Netherlands)
Uta Schwertel (imc, Germany)
Jeroen Van Grondelle (Be Informed, Netherlands)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Previous Events
There were three previous events in the same series:
CNL 2009 in Marettimo, Italy
CNL 2010 in Marettimo, Italy
CNL 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland