Controlled Natural Languages are subsets of natural languages whose grammars and dictionaries have been restricted in order to reduce or eliminate both ambiguity and complexity. Both grammars and dictionaries typically follow either the positive list principle (use only the constructions/words in the list) or the negative list principle (do not use the constructions/words in the list). The purpose behind the development and implementation of a controlled natural language typically is to aid non-native speakers of a natural language in understanding it, or to ease computer processing of a natural language. For the surname, see Grammer. ... The dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. ... Look up ambiguity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Languages
Examples of existing controlled natural languages include:
Attempto Controlled English (ACE) is a controlled natural language, i. ... Dr. David Bourland coined the term E-Prime, short for English Prime, in the 1965 work A Linguistic Note: Writing in E-Prime to refer to the English language modified by prohibiting the use of the verb to be. E-Prime arose from Alfred Korzybskis General Semantics and his... Uwe Muegge (pronounced []), (b. ...
Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence and linguistics. ... Knowledge representation is an issue that arises in both cognitive science and artificial intelligence. ...
External links
Controlled Natural Languages (Macquarie University)
Naturallanguage generation systems convert information from computer databases into normal-sounding human language, and naturallanguage understanding systems convert samples of human language into more formal representations that are easier for computer programs to manipulate.
Naturallanguage understanding is sometimes referred to as an AI-complete problem, because naturallanguage recognition seems to require extensive knowledge about the outside world and the ability to manipulate it.
Naturallanguage is human language, in this case, language used by cheese makers, importers, and sellers of British cheeses.
The naturallanguage used by CABACHI members and cheese makers would not necessarily be understood by officials of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, therefore the ABC Thesaurus offers users a defined set of controlled vocabulary from which CABACHI members can derive official terminology for use in completing importation forms.
The highly specialized nature of this language environment, in concert with the encouragement from the Guidelines (3.6.1) to select terms that reflect the usage of individuals familiar with that language, indicated that we follow the best practice of using terms as recognized by the user group wherever possible.