Re: OWL "Sydney Syntax", structured english

Hi

I read through all these emails about controlled natural languages and would 
like to make a remark about something that is missing in the discussion:

When you design a controlled natural language, then you have to think about 
the user inferface first. You have to provide a user interface which guides 
the writing process. I am convinced that this is possible, you can use text- 
and menu-based lookahead techniques which constrain the input of the user. 
By the way, these kinds of techniques have successfully been used in editors 
for programming languages. I suggest to write a definite clause grammar that 
bi-directionally translates a DL-equivalent controlled natural language into 
OWL Abstract Syntax (and vice versa) and use these lookahead techniques.

Cheers,
Rolf Schwitter