21.1886, Calls: Computational Ling/Italy

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From: Norbert E. Fuchs < fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch >
Subject: 2nd Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages
 

	
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Subject: 2nd Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages

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Full Title: 2nd Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages 
Short Title: CNL 2010 

Date: 13-Sep-2010 - 15-Sep-2010
Location: Marettimo Island, Sicily, Italy 
Contact Person: Michael Rosner
Meeting Email: mike.rosner at um.edu.mt
Web Site: http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/cnl2010 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 21-May-2010 

Meeting Description:

CNL 2010
2nd Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages
http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/cnl2010
Marettimo Island, Sicily (Italy)
13-15 September 2010 

Call for Papers

Controlled natural languages (CNLs) are subsets of natural languages,
obtained by restricting the grammar and vocabulary in order to reduce or
eliminate ambiguity and complexity. Traditionally, controlled languages
fall into two major types: those that improve readability for human readers
(e.g. non-native speakers), and those that enable reliable automatic semantic
analysis of the language.

Languages of the first type (often called "simplified" or "technical"
languages), for example ASD Simplified Technical English, Caterpillar Technical
 English, IBM's  Easy  English, are  used in industry to increase the quality of
technical documentation, and possibly simplify the (semi-) automatic translation
of the documentation. These languages restrict the writer by general rules such
as "write short and grammatically simple sentences", "use nouns instead of
pronouns", "use determiners", and "use active instead of passive".

Languages of the second type have a formal logical basis, i.e. they have
a formal syntax and semantics, and can be mapped to an existing formal
language, such as first-order logic. Thus, those languages can be used
as knowledge-representation languages, and writing of those languages is
supported by fully automatic consistency and redundancy checks, query
answering, etc.

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language)

Topics
CNL 2010 will address issues connected to controlled natural languages
including the following topics
Nature and Purpose of CNLs:
- design of CNLs and comparison between CNLs
- lexical and Syntactic issues for CNLs
- CNL semantics and knowledge representation
- expressivity within CNLs
- reasoning in CNLs
- theoretical results for CNLs

Applications:
- CNLs for specifications
- CNLs and the semantic web
- CNLs for user interfaces
- CNLs for interaction, communication and dialogue
- CNL in the context of Linked Open Data (LOD) content creation and annotation
- CNL and Information Extraction
- tool support architectures for CNLs
- linking text mining to CNLs
- CNLs for business rules
- CNLs and mobile computing
- use cases of CNLs

The workshop will be informal with plenty of time for presentations and
discussions in the fashion of the seminars organised at Dagstuhl in
Germany (www.dagstuhl.de/programm/dagstuhl-seminare). To ensure the
informal atmosphere the number of participants will be limited.

Submission Details
We invite researchers to submit extended abstracts of exactly 4 pages
(including references). These extended abstracts will be intensively
reviewed by several members of the programme committee. Authors of
accepted extended abstracts will be invited to present their research at
the workshop. Revised versions of the accepted abstracts will be published
before the workshop as a technical report of the Department of Intelligent
Computer Systems at the University of Malta. During the workshop authors will
have ample time to present their work and to have it discussed by the
participants. All authors are then invited to submit
a full paper of up to 20 pages (including references) that takes the discussions
during the workshop into account.  Full papers will again be reviewed by the
programme committee. Revised versions of the full papers will be published by
Springer in their LNCS/LNAI series.

Extended abstracts and full papers should use the Springer LNCS format.
Extended abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format. For
submissions we use EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cnl2010).

Important Dates
First call for abstracts 14 April 2010
Deadline for submissions of extended abstracts: 21 May 2010
Notification of acceptance of extended abstracts: 25 June 2010
Participants contact Marettimo Residence for accommodation: end of June 2010
Final versions of extended abstracts: 23 July 2010
Workshop: 13-15 September 2010

Program Committee
Johan Bos (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
Peter E. Clark (Boeing, Seattle, USA)
*Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield, UK)
Danica Damljanovic (University of Sheffield, UK)
Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Albert Gatt (University of Malta)
Siegfried Handschuh (DERI, University of Galway)
*Pat Hayes (IHMC, Florida)
*Jerry R. Hobbs (USC/ISI, USA)
Stefan Hoefler (University of Zurich)
Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
*Peter Koepke (University of Bonn, Germany)
Tobias Kuhn (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Paola Monachesi (University of Utrecht)
Gordon Pace (University of Malta)
*Stephen Pulman (University of Oxford, UK)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta) (chair)
Aarne Ranta (Chalmers University, Sweden)
Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
Donia Scott (University of Sussex)
Harold Somers (Dublin City University)
*John Sowa (VivoMind, USA)
Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami)
Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Uta Schwertel (imc, Germany)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
Adam Wyner (University of London UK)

*awaiting confirmation

Further Information
http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/cnl2010/

Organisation
Michael Rosner (University of Malta) mike.rosner at um.edu.mt
Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland) fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch





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