[Attempto] Release of versions 6.7 of Attempto Controlled English and the Attempto Parsing Engine

[Norbert E. Fuchs]

Hi

We are happy to announce the slightly extended version 6.7 of Attempto Controlled English (ACE) and the improved version 6.7 of the Attempto Parsing Engine (APE).

Best regards

The Attempto team (Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, Tobias Kuhn)



Changes in ACE 6.7

- Added support for the exponentiation operator ^ in arithmetical expressions, e.g. "2^3^4" that is parsed as (2^3)^4.
- Added support for "how many" and "how much" queries that ask for numbers of countable nouns or for amounts of mass or measurement nouns, e.g. "How many beaches have how much sand?"

Changes in APE 6.7

- APE can now translate ACE texts into the RuleML format.
- The coverage of the ACE-to-OWL translator has been improved.
- The dependencies of the Java Interface for APE on external libraries are now managed using Maven.
- The large Clex lexicon (~100,000 entries) was migrated to the separate repository https://github.com/Attempto/Clex. As before, the APE source distribution contains a reduced (~2000 entries) version of this lexicon.

The source code of APE can be downloaded from https://github.com/Attempto/APE/releases

The large Clex lexicon can be downloaded from https://github.com/Attempto/Clex/releases

Detailed documentation on ACE 6.7 and its tools is available on the Attempto website (http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch) that was updated and partially restructured.

Please use the Attempto mailing list (http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/mailinglist/) for any feedback. Technical contributions to APE can also be made via joining the APE project on GitHub (https://github.com/Attempto/APE).