Fifth Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2016)

25-27 July 2016 in Aberdeen, Scotland

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.

Important Dates

- REVISED EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 April 2016
- Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2016
- Deadline for receipt of revised papers: 13 May 2016
- Deadline for submission to Springer: 20 May 2016
- Registration deadline: 11 July 2016
- Posters/demos deadline: 11 July 2016
- Workshop: 25-27 July 2016

Sponsors

Contact Adam Wyner, azwyner@abdn.ac.uk, if you want to become a sponsor.

Topics

Possible topics for CNL 2016 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

Invited Speakers

Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT
Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld
Tim Finin, University of Maryland

Submissions and Proceedings

We invite researchers to submit papers with novel contributions in the area of CNL. These research papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS (https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) format and should not exceed 10
pages.

Submit your paper via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cnl2016

The proceedings of the workshop will appear in Springer's LNCS/LNAI series and will be indexed in all major citation databases including ISI Web of Science and Scopus.

Website:

http://www.sigcnl.org/cnl2016.html

Social Media:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sig_cnl

Google Drive (read only): https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bx9w-S4aWKt3azIxRnJkS3V2WDg&usp=sharing

Organization Committee

- Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen, Scotland; azwyner@abdn.ac.uk)
- Brian Davis (INSIGHT@NUI Galway, Ireland; brian.davis@insight-centre.org)
- Gordon Pace (University of Malta, Malta; gordon.pace@um.edu.mt)

Program Committee

Krasimir Angelov (Chalmers University, Sweden)
Paul Buitelaar (INSIGHT@NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
Rogan Creswick (Galois, USA)
Brian Davis (INSIGHT@NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
Ronald Denaux (iSOCO, Spain)
Ramona Enache (Chalmers University, Sweden)
Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey)
Sebastien Ferre (University Rennes 1, France)
Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Normunds Gruzitis (University of Latvia)
Kaarel Kaljurand (Nuance Communications, Austria)
Peter Koepke (University of Bonn, Germany)
Tobias Kuhn (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Adegboyega Ojo (INSIGHT@NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
Gordon Pace (University of Malta)
Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa)
Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Uta Schwertel (imc, Germany)
Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA)
Irina Temnikova (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Camilo Thorne (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Jeroen Van Grondelle (HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands) Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen, UK)

Previous Events

There were four previous events in the same series:

- CNL 2009 in Marettimo, Italy. http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2009/
- CNL 2010 in Marettimo, Italy. http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/cnl2010/index.html - CNL 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland. http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2012/
- CNL 2014 in Galway, Ireland. http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2014/


The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683.

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