[SCL] Re: CL Controlled English (CLCE)

[John F. Sowa]

Bill,

I plan to have a version on my web site before
Christmas, so you can use that.

 > I will have to think of some way to hook the lexicon
 > of the ontology into a parser.

The CLCE grammar assumes that every word (other than
the very tiny set in quotes in the grammar rules)
must be declared as a noun, verb, adjective, or
preposition.  That means that every relation in the
ontology must be declared to be of one of those
categories.  When I post the full version on my
web site, I'll include the grammar for the
declarations.

And I also forgot to add three additional grammar
rules for questions.  If you add the following
two rules to the previous grammar, you have a
query subset that can be translated directly
to a Prolog goal or an SQL query.

John
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Question  ::=   "Is it true that" Sentence
             |   InterrogativeNP VerbPhrase

InterrogativeNP  ::=  "Who" | "What" | "When"
                    |   "Which" Adjective* Noun
                        Variable? PostModifier?