[Attempto] Controlled Natural Language for Legal Texts

[John J. Camilleri]

Hello all,

I am joining this conversation late as I was not on the Attempto mailing
list until now. I would just like to point to some of our own work since we
are active in this area too. We have worked on two CNLs for legal texts,
focusing on normative contracts. Both are described in separate chapters of
my upcoming licentiate thesis (details here
<https://gup.ub.gu.se/publication/222958-analysing-normative-contracts> and
PDF here <http://academic.johnjcamilleri.com/papers/licentiate2015.pdf>).

One CNL is designed for the contract logic CL (chapter 2), and the other
for the C-O Diagram formalism (chapter 3). Admittedly both CNLs were
designed to closely match the abstract syntax of their respective
formalisms, rather than to have a wide coverage or generic use, but you may
still find them relevant. We plan to develop this CNL for normative
contracts further during the remainder of my PhD.

Best regards,
John

-- 
John J. Camilleri
Ph.D. student
Computer Science and Engineering
Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, Sweden
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~cajohn/

On 2 October 2015 at 15:06, Aarne Ranta <Aarne.Ranta at cse.gu.se> wrote:

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> Begin forwarded message:
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> *From: *David Hait <dhait at optionmetrics.com>
> *To: *Tobias Kuhn <kuhntobias at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *"Norbert E. Fuchs" <fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch>, Stefan Höfler <
> hoefler at cl.uzh.ch>, Kaarel Kaljurand <kaljurand at gmail.com>, Michael
> Rosner <mike.rosner at um.edu.mt>, Aarne Ranta <aarne at chalmers.se>, attempto
> ML <attempto at lists.ifi.uzh.ch>
> *Subject: **Re: [Attempto] Controlled Natural Language for Legal Texts*
> *Date: *2 Oct 2015 09:46:00 CEST
>
> I've thought a bit about this in the context of economic contracts and
> associated law. It would seem to me that any such natural language would
> have to support modal constructs like tense, intent, obligation vs option,
> etc. as well as all the features of "ownership". Are there any extant
> languages that have this richness?
>
>
> On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:01 AM, Tobias Kuhn <kuhntobias at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Norbert,
>
> The Massachusetts Legislative Drafting Language is about representing
> laws, the Controlled Language for Crisis Management (CLCM) deals with
> regulations of sorts, and Plain Language has been used for all kinds of
> government documents. None of them is an ACE-type CNL though. You can find
> them all in my survey:
> http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/COLI_a_00168
>
> Best regards,
> Tobias
>
>
> On 01.10.2015 17:20, Norbert E. Fuchs wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am looking for pointers to publications and projects using controlled
> natural language – preferably Attempto Controlled English – for legal texts
> like laws, regulations, contracts etc.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>   --- nef
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