10-11 Sep 2020
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Seventh International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2020)
http://www.sigcnl.org/cnl2020.html
10/11 September 2020
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Co-located with SEMANTiCS 2020
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
paper submission deadline: 2 May 2020
notification of acceptance: 15 June 2020
camera-ready papers: 5 July 2020
workshop: 10-11 September 2020
Venue and Registration
The workshop will be at the Meervaart Theatre in Amsterdam, together with the
SEMANTiCS conference.
You can register via the SEMANTiCS registration system. The â??CNL onlyâ??
option costs â?¬200, plus â?¬42 taxes. (If you cannot afford this, contact us
and we will see what we can do for you.)
Sponsors
(contact Silvie Spreeuwenberg, silvie@librt.com, if you want to become a
sponsor)
Topics
Possible topics for CNL 2020 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
Submissions and Proceedings
We invite researchers to submit papers with novel contributions in the area of
CNL. We are looking for two types of papers, formatted in two-column ACL style:
Full papers with novel research results and/or in-depth case descriptions
should not exceed 8 pages (accepted papers will get a long presentation slot at
the workshop)
Short papers (including demo/white papers) that shortly introduce a system,
approach, or opinion should not exceed 4 pages (accepted papers will get a
shorter presentation slot at the workshop)
Submission should be done via EasyChair here. Full and short paper will be
peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology.
There will also be a business track, for which you can submit extended
abstracts:
Business track abstracts of 1 or 2 pages (excluding graphics) describing a
business application or business case (accepted abstracts will get a
presentation slot in the business track session)
Keynote Speakers
Bob Kowalski, Imperial College London
Piek Vossen, VU Amsterdam
Mariette Lokin, Douane Nederland
Organization Committee
Tobias Kuhn, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, Netherlands
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, HAN University of Applied Sciences and Radboud
University, Netherlands
Norbert E. Fuchs, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Program Committee
Krasimir Angelov (Digital Grammars, Sweden)
Mihael Arcan (National University of Ireland, Galway)
John Camilleri (Digital Grammars, Sweden)
Brian Davis (Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland)
Ronald Denaux, (Expert System, Spain)
Ramona Enache (Microsoft, Sweden)
Sebastien Ferre (University Rennes 1, France)
Antske Fokkens (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Albert Gatt (University of Malta)
Normunds Gruzitis (University of Latvia)
Yannis Haralambous (IMT Atlantique, France)
Herbert Lange (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Kaarel Kaljurand (Nuance Communications, Austria)
Maria Keet (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
John P. McCrae (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Roser Morante (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Gordon Pace (University of Malta)
Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa, South Africa)
Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
Giovanni Sileno (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Irina Temnikova (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Camilo Thorne (Elsevier, Germany)
Adam Wyner (Swansea University, UK)
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