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One of the main challenges for building the Semantic web is Ontology Authoring. Controlled Natural Languages CNLs offer a user friendly means for non-experts to author ontologies. This paper provides a snapshot of the state-of-the-art for the core CNLs for ontology authoring and reviews their respective evaluations.
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Safwat, H., Davis, B. (2014). A Brief State of the Art of CNLs for Ontology Authoring. In: Davis, B., Kaljurand, K., Kuhn, T. (eds) Controlled Natural Language. CNL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8625. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10223-8_18
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