INAUT, a Controlled Language for the French Coast Pilot Books Instructions nautiques
This work addresses the specific need for efficient maritime navigation documentation updates for the French National Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service, representing an incremental improvement in domain-specific tools.
The authors tackled the problem of collaborative knowledge base updates and automatic generation of French coast pilot books by developing INAUT, a controlled natural language based on French with georeferenced entities, resulting in a system for document production, interaction with ENCs, and collaborative updates.
We describe INAUT, a controlled natural language dedicated to collaborative update of a knowledge base on maritime navigation and to automatic generation of coast pilot books (Instructions nautiques) of the French National Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service SHOM. INAUT is based on French language and abundantly uses georeferenced entities. After describing the structure of the overall system, giving details on the language and on its generation, and discussing the three major applications of INAUT (document production, interaction with ENCs and collaborative updates of the knowledge base), we conclude with future extensions and open problems.