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Fourth Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2014)
Co-located with COLING 2014
20–22 August 2014
Galway, Ireland
Sponsors:
— open call for papers for special issue on CNL in LRE journal —
— the video recordings of the talks are available now —
This workshop on controlled natural language (CNL) has a broad scope and embraces
all approaches that are based on natural language and apply restrictions on vocabulary, grammar,
and/or semantics. This includes (but is certainly not limited to) approaches that have been called
simplified language, plain language, formalized language,
processable language, fragments of language, phraseologies,
conceptual authoring, language generation, and
guided natural language interfaces.
Some CNLs 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 and formal knowledge
representation from seemingly natural texts. All these types of CNL are covered by this workshop.
Picture
Group photograph of the workshop.
Important Dates
| Submission deadline (extended): | 31 March 2014 |
| Notification of acceptance: | 12 May 2014 |
| Deadline for revised papers: | 9 June 2014 |
| Registration deadline (extended): | 17 August 2014 |
| Deadline for posters/demos (extended): | 19 August 2014 |
| Workshop: | 20–22 August 2014 |
Topics
Possible topics for CNL 2014 include:
- CNL for knowledge representation
- CNL for query interfaces
- CNL for specifications
- CNL for business rules
- CNL for dialogue systems
- CNL for machine translation
- CNL for improved understandability of texts
- CNL for natural language generation
- design of CNLs
- CNL applications
- CNL evaluation
- usability and acceptance of CNL
- CNL grammars and lexica
- multilingual CNLs
- reasoning in CNL
- spoken CNL
- CNL in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data
- CNL in the government
- CNL in industry
- CNL use cases
- theoretical properties of CNL
Submissions and Proceedings
We invited researchers to submit papers with novel contributions in the area of CNL.
Accepted papers are included in the
workshop proceedings LNCS 8625
published by Springer
and will be indexed in all major citation databases including ISI Web of Science and Scopus.
Invited Speakers
We have three invited speakers:
Organization Committee
- Brian Davis (INSIGHT@NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Tobias Kuhn (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Program Committee
- Krasimir Angelov (Chalmers University, Sweden)
- Johan Bos (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
- Paul Buitelaar (INSIGHT@NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Olga Caprotti (University of Helsinki, Finland)
- Rogan Creswick (Galois, USA)
- Danica Damljanovic (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Brian Davis (INSIGHT@NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Ronald Denaux (iSOCO, Spain)
- Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)
- Ramona Enache (Chalmers University, Sweden)
- Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey)
- Sébastien Ferré (University Rennes 1, France)
- Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Normunds Grūzītis (University of Latvia)
- Siegfried Handschuh (INSIGHT@NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Stefan Höfler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Peter Koepke (University of Bonn, Germany)
- Tobias Kuhn (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Hans Leiß (University of Munich, Germany)
- Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
- Adegboyega Ojo (INSIGHT@NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Gordon Pace (University of Malta)
- Richard Power (The Open University, UK)
- Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa)
- Stephen Pulman (Oxford University, UK)
- Allan Ramsay (University of Manchester, UK)
- Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
- Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
- Uta Schwertel (imc, Germany)
- Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT, Netherlands)
- Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA)
- Irina Temnikova (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
- Allan Third (The Open University, UK)
- Camilo Thorne (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
- Jeroen Van Grondelle (HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands)
- Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Previous Events
There were three previous events in the same series:
