29–31 August 2012
Zurich, Switzerland
A controlled natural language (CNL) is based on natural language but comes with restrictions on vocabulary, grammar, and/or semantics. The general goal is to reduce or eliminate ambiguity and complexity.
Some of these languages 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 on seemingly natural texts. Such languages have a direct mapping to some sort of formal logic and should improve the accessiblity of formal knowledge representations or specifications for people unfamiliar with formal notations.
All these types of CNL are covered by this workshop.
Possible topics for CNL 2012 include:
| Submission deadline (extended): | 13 April 2012 |
| Notification of acceptance: | 28 May 2012 |
| Deadline for revised papers: | 18 June 2012 |
| Registration (late registration is possible): | 10 August 2012 |
| Workshop: | 29–31 August 2012 |
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 15 pages (but shorter papers are highly welcome too). Papers should be submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair conference system.
Accepted papers are included in the printed workshop proceedings and published by Springer within the LNAI series. Authors of accepted papers are invited to present their research at the workshop. Unlike the previous CNL workshops, the final papers are reviewed and published before the workshop (there are no extended abstracts anymore).
The following papers have been accepted:
We are proud to announce the following two invited speakers:
There are two demos slots for industrial and academic demos.
The program can be found here.
Some participants presented posters of their work:
The workshop takes place at the Department of Informatics and the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
Official registration is closed, but we still accept late registrations. To register, send us an email with the following information: Your name, your affiliation and your email address.
There is no registration fee, but we ask you for 30 Swiss francs to cover the coffee break expenses. Lunches and workshop dinner have to be paid individually by the participants.
The details about accommodation and other practical information for participants can be found here.
The workshop dinner will take place on Thursday, 30 August 2012, at 20:00 at the restaurant Le Muh:
Le Muh
Schulstrasse 44
8050 Zurich
The restaurant is part of the Swissôtel whose tower is located next to the train station Oerlikon. Le Muh is in 10 minute walking-distance to the venue of CNL 2012. Please indicate during registration whether you plan to attend the dinner. The dinner has to be paid individually.
There were two previous events in the same series, both held in Marettimo, Italy: