Andries, (01)
> I think it is a pity that you did not take Gellish Formal English into
> account in your overview. (02)
If I had known of it, I would certainly have discussed it. But when I
presented that talk in 2009, I had never heard of it. The main source
for CNLs at that time was the CNL Home Page by Rolf Schwitter. It's
a pity that the Gellish developers/users were disjoint from the rest
of the CNL community at that time. (03)
> 1. I question whether logic and reasoning and the bridge to natural language
> interpretation should have such a strong emphasis.
> In my view information exchange, information integration and unambiguous
> interpretation should precede that. (04)
I agree that the uses you cite are very important for practical
applications. In fact, the title of my talk was "Controlled Natural
Languages for Semantic Systems". The applications I discussed are
along the lines you mention. (05)
But I also wanted to emphasize the use of CNLs as a bridge between
human languages and formal languages. That is why they are good for
the applications you address. (06)
> 2. In your slide about 'Multiple Word Senses' you don't distinguish between
> the meaning of a concept and the various words and phrases that can denote
> such a concept... (07)
The theoretical and practical issues about word senses, concepts,
meaning, and ontology have been analyzed and debated for over two
millennia without reaching a consensus. (08)
Following are the slides for a 3-hour tutorial I presented on those
topics in June of this year: (09)
http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/kdptut.pdf (010)
For anybody interested in reverse engineering COBOL programs, see the
last example before the end (Slides 123 to 128). (011)
John (012)
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