[Attempto] Controlled Natural Language for Legal Texts

[Tobias Kuhn]

Just came across this new paper by Adam Wyner, which seems to be very 
relevant to the discussed topic: 
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-19575-9_15

Best regards,
Tobias

On 06.10.2015 11:01, John J. Camilleri wrote:
> 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
> <mailto:Aarne.Ranta at cse.gu.se>> wrote:
>
>
>>     Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>     *From: *David Hait <dhait at optionmetrics.com
>>     <mailto:dhait at optionmetrics.com>>
>>     *To: *Tobias Kuhn <kuhntobias at gmail.com <mailto:kuhntobias at gmail.com>>
>>     *Cc: *"Norbert E. Fuchs" <fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch
>>     <mailto:fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch>>, Stefan Höfler <hoefler at cl.uzh.ch
>>     <mailto:hoefler at cl.uzh.ch>>, Kaarel Kaljurand <kaljurand at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:kaljurand at gmail.com>>, Michael Rosner
>>     <mike.rosner at um.edu.mt <mailto:mike.rosner at um.edu.mt>>, Aarne
>>     Ranta <aarne at chalmers.se <mailto:aarne at chalmers.se>>, attempto ML
>>     <attempto at lists.ifi.uzh.ch <mailto: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
>>>     <mailto: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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