CNL 2016 - Fifth Workshop on Controlled Natural Language

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.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 1 March 2016
Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2016
Deadline for revised papers: 13 May 2016
Registration deadline: 11 July 2016
Posters/demos deadline: 11 July 2016
Workshop: 25?27 July 2016
Sponsors
(contact Adam Wyner, azwyner-AT-abdn.ac.uk, if you want to become a sponsor)
Topics
Possible topics for CNL 2016 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