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This collaborative report highlights the properties and prospects of Controlled Natural Languages (CNLs). The report poses a range of questions concerning the goals of the CNL, the design, the linguistic aspects, the relationships and evaluation of CNLs, and the application tools. In posing the questions, the report attempts to structure the field of CNLs and to encourage further systematic discussion by researchers and developers.
Adam Wyner is the main author, editor, and contact person. Correspondence: Adam Wyner, Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom, adam@wyner.info. This report is the outcome of a collaboration amongst the listed contributors; see Section 4 for further contact information. It is based on an original collaborative document: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd3zb82w_03976bbfm .
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Wyner, A. et al. (2010). On Controlled Natural Languages: Properties and Prospects. In: Fuchs, N.E. (eds) Controlled Natural Language. CNL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5972. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14418-9_17
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