Controlled natural language : Second International Workshop, CNL 2010 Marettimo Island, Italy, September 13-15, 2010 Revised Papers

Abstract

The idea of holding a second workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2010) was conceived at the end of the first workshop held in 2009, and put into practice a few months later when Norbert Fuchs asked for my collaboration. After forming a programme committee, a call for submissions of extended abstracts was sent out in April 2010. We decided that given the relatively young and fluid status of Controlled Natural Languages (CNLs) as a discipline, it would be unwise to focus on any one topic and so the call was oriented towards broad coverage of the field, stressing theoretical and practical aspects of CNLs, relations to other knowledge representation languages, tool support, and applications. Altogether 17 extended abstracts were submitted, of which the programme committee accepted 12. In contrast and in addition to the 2009 workshop, the programme included four tutorials that were intended to attract students without extensive experience in the area. These were: • Rolf Schwitter, Controlled Natural Languages for Knowledge Representation • Tobias Kuhn, An Introduction to AceWiki • Aarne Ranta, Multilingual Controlled Language Packages: Implementation and Applications • Norbert E. Fuchs, First-Order Reasoning for Attempto Controlled English The workshop took place 13–15 September 2010, once again at the magical venue of Marettimo Island, where a collection of researchers that included a number of PhD students successfully recreated that excellent combination of presentations, discussions, recreation, and Mediterranean lifestyle that characterised the first workshop.