21.1988, Calls: Comp Ling: Sicily, Italy

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Date: 26-Apr-2010
From: Norbert E. Fuchs < fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch >
Subject: 2nd Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages
 

	
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:19:04
From: Norbert E. Fuchs [fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch]
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: 28-May-2010 

Meeting Description:

CNL 2010 will address theoretical and practical aspects of controlled natural
languages.

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

2nd Call for Extended Abstracts 

(deadline for submissions postponed to 28 May 2010)

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.

Submissions 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 sub-
missions we use EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?
conf=cnl2010).

Venue:
The workshop will take place on the Italian island Marettimo at the 
Marettimo Residence (www.marettimoresidence.com/inglese/home.php) that 
consists of a set of two-storey houses within a beautiful garden. On top of 
the garden of the residence there is a large lecture hall with wireless 
internet.

Marettimo is the outermost of the Egadian Islands to the west of Sicily, and 
is easily reached from the airports of Palermo and Trapani. Marettimo offers 
the simple and relaxed life of southern Italy, unspoilt landscape, stupendous 
views, hiking, swimming, diving, boat trips, and excursions on donkeys.  
There are several restaurants and bars, and some shops. What the island 
does not offer: traffic - there are practically no roads - fancy shops and 
restaurants, night life, and sandy beaches.

Registration Fee:
There is no registration fee for CNL 2010.

Accomodation:
The Marettimo Residence 
(www.marettimoresidence.com/inglese/home.php)
offers one- and two-bedroom apartments with fully equipped kitchens. A 
number of apartments for the participants of CNL 2010 will be reserved until 
early July 2010 at a price 10% below the regular price. Participants should 
in time get into direct contact with the Marettimo Residence to organise their 
accommodation. Alternative accommodations on Marettimo can be found 
via the internet.

Workshop Dinner:
A workshop dinner will be arranged during the workshop, and will be paid
individually by the participants.

Important Dates:
Deadline for submissions of extended abstracts: 28 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)
Alfio Gliozzo (CNRS Rome)
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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