- From: Francois Bry <bry@ifi.lmu.de>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:48:12 +0100
- To: edbark@nist.gov, W3C RIF WG <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
Ed Barkmeyer wrote: >As I understand it, the issue that John Hall's use case addresses is the >exchange of rules > - between "Business Rule Management" systems, > - between Business Rules Management systems and "rules execution engines", > - between Business Rules Management systems and "rules rewriting systems". > >While many apparently believe that the representation used in those exchanges >would be some kind of "controlled natural language", I don't. At most, such a representation may be of use in the first bullet, but surely not in the other two. For the whole set of exchanges, the representation used must be formal logic! > Some controlled English language, like eg Attempto, are "formal logic in English disguise", or "formal logic expressed using English words and a restricted English grammar". -- Francois
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