Towards Structural Natural Language Formalization: Mapping Discourse to Controlled Natural Language
This is an incremental study for researchers in natural language processing and formal logic, focusing on improving structural formalization.
The authors tackled the problem of mapping natural language discourse to controlled natural language statements using a pipeline of existing technologies, resulting in a conceptual study that describes evaluation, potential, and limitations for ontology-based reasoning.
The author describes a conceptual study towards mapping grounded natural language discourse representation structures to instances of controlled language statements. This can be achieved via a pipeline of preexisting state of the art technologies, namely natural language syntax to semantic discourse mapping, and a reduction of the latter to controlled language discourse, given a set of previously learnt reduction rules. Concludingly a description on evaluation, potential and limitations for ontology-based reasoning is presented.