CNL 2012

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Program

All talks take place in room 2.A.01 of the Department of Informatics. All talks are open to the public.

WEDNESDAY, 29 AUGUST 2012

Opening
13:30-14:00Tobias Kuhn and Norbert E. Fuchs
Welcome Note and Practical Information
Invited Talk 1

(Session Chair: Norbert E. Fuchs)

14:00-15:00Stephen Pulman (University of Oxford)
Second Order Inference in NL Semantics
Break
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
Research Talks 1

(Session Chair: Mike Rosner)

15:30-16:15Kaarel Kaljurand
General Architecture of a Controlled Natural Language Based Multilingual Semantic Wiki
16:15-17:00Normunds Grūzītis, Pēteris Paikens and Guntis Bārzdiņš
FrameNet Resource Grammar Library for GF
17:00-17:45Brian Davis, Ramona Enache, Jeroen Van Grondelle and Laurette Pretorius
Multilingual Verbalisation of Modular Ontologies using GF and Lemon

THURSDAY, 30 AUGUST 2012

Research Talks 2

(Session Chair: Rolf Schwitter)

09:00-09:45Sébastien Ferré
SQUALL: a Controlled Natural Language for Querying and Updating RDF Graphs
09:45-10:30Richard Power
OWL Simplified English: a Finite-State Language for Ontology Editing
Break
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
Research Talks 3

(Session Chair: Kaarel Kaljurand)

11:00-11:45William Murray and Tomas Singliar
Spatiotemporal Extensions to a Controlled Natural Language
11:45-12:30Rolf Schwitter
Answer Set Programming via Controlled Natural Language Processing
Break
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
Invited Talk 2

(Session Chair: Norbert E. Fuchs)

14:00-15:00Sabine Lehmann, Ben Gottesman, Robert Grabowski, Mayo Kudo, Siu Kei Pepe Lo, Melanie Siegel and Frederik Fouvry (Acrolinx)
Applying CNL Authoring Support to Improve Machine Translation of Forum Data
Break
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
Research Talks 4

(Session Chair: Stephen Pulman)

15:30-16:15Stefan Höfler
Legislative Drafting Guidelines: How Different Are They From Controlled Language Rules for Technical Writing?
16:15-17:00CANCELED
Palmira Marrafa, Raquel Amaro, Nuno Freire and Sara Mendes
Portuguese Controlled Language: Coping with Ambiguity
Open Space
16:15-17:30Open Space: general discussion (about future CNL events etc.)
Social Event
20:00Workshop Dinner

FRIDAY, 31 AUGUST 2012

Research Talks 5

(Session Chair: Richard Power)

09:00-09:45Faegheh Hasibi
An Adaptation Technique for GF-based Dialogue Systems
09:45-10:30Kaarel Kaljurand and Tanel Alumäe
Controlled Natural Language in Speech Recognition Based User Interfaces
Break
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
Demos 1

(Session Chair: Tobias Kuhn)

11:00-12:30Industrial and Academic Demos
Break
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
Demos 2

(Session Chair: Tobias Kuhn)

14:00-15:00Academic Demos