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<h2 id="languages">Languages</h2> <p>Existing controlled natural languages include:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/ASD_Simplified_Technical_English/PyHCaL4b">ASD Simplified Technical English</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Attempto_Controlled_English/21K4T1e1">Attempto Controlled English</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Aviation_English/38tECKGK">Aviation English</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Basic_English/pbIkSYn4">Basic English</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/ClearTalk/3BjJjsVq">ClearTalk</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Common_Logic/U6FJjVaL">Common Logic</a> Controlled English<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Distributed_Language_Translation/rBsnI89r">Distributed Language Translation</a> Esperanto</li> <li>Easy Japanese</li> <li><a href="/facts/E-Prime/rxklu4S6">E-Prime</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Fran%C3%A7ais_fondamental/GnHu2kD8">Français fondamental</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Gellish/kkModhkv">Gellish Formal English</a></li> <li>Interlingua-IL sive <a href="/facts/Latino_sine_flexione/hoHJrWqS">Latino sine flexione</a> (<a href="/facts/Giuseppe_Peano/VT2Wsmu7">Giuseppe Peano</a>)</li> <li>Logical English<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></li> <li>ModeLang<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Newspeak/bwg5J0EU">Newspeak</a> (fictional)</li> <li>Processable English (PENG)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Seaspeak/emBf2tv8">Seaspeak</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Semantics_of_Business_Vocabulary_and_Business_Rules/Yw3lyUGN">Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Special_English/a3sdfMLm">Special English</a></li></ul> <h2 id="encoding">Encoding</h2> <p><a href="/facts/IETF/tIcCsFhX">IETF</a> has reserved simple as a <a href="/facts/BCP_47/r7lQQ15A">BCP 47</a> <a href="/facts/IETF_language_tag/r7lQQ15A">variant subtag</a> for simplified versions of languages.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Constructed_language/x4Ec5trY">Constructed language</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Knowledge_representation_and_reasoning/9lnzyILD">Knowledge representation and reasoning</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Natural_language_processing/1hjMKsSN">Natural language processing</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Controlled_vocabulary/JcYKWx3H">Controlled vocabulary</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Controlled_language_in_machine_translation/fTVdEa5t">Controlled language in machine translation</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Structured_English/TfIubJnI">Structured English</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Word-sense_disambiguation/Mfcw7gsu">Word-sense disambiguation</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Simple_English_Wikipedia/QfBuhvTf">Simple English Wikipedia</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/controllednaturallanguage/">Controlled Natural Languages</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308080234/https://sites.google.com/site/controllednaturallanguage/">Archived</a> 2021-03-08 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"A Survey and Classification of Controlled Natural Languages". direct.mit.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-27. <a href="https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/40/1/121/1455/A-Survey-and-Classification-of-Controlled-Natural" target="_blank">https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/40/1/121/1455/A-Survey-and-Classification-of-Controlled-Natural</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Controlled Natural Languages for language generation in artificial cognition". IEEE. Retrieved 2024-03-27. <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6907843" target="_blank">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6907843</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>O'Brien, Sharon (2003). "Controlling Controlled English – An Analysis of Several Controlled Language Rule Sets" (PDF). Proceedings of EAMT-CLAW. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-12-30. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181833/http://www.mt-archive.info/CLT-2003-Obrien.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181833/http://www.mt-archive.info/CLT-2003-Obrien.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Schwitter, Rolf. "Controlled natural languages for knowledge representation." Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010. <a href="http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/cnl2010/TALKS/schwitter_tutorial.pdf" target="_blank">http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/cnl2010/TALKS/schwitter_tutorial.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Kuhn, Tobias (2014). "A Survey and Classification of Controlled Natural Languages". Computational Linguistics. 40: 121–170. arXiv:1507.01701. doi:10.1162/COLI_a_00168. S2CID 14586568. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1162%2FCOLI_a_00168" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1162%2FCOLI_a_00168</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Pool, Jonathan (2006). "Can Controlled Languages Scale to the Web?". Archived from the original on 2009-08-15. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090815035716/http://utilika.org/pubs/etc/ambigcl/clweb.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20090815035716/http://utilika.org/pubs/etc/ambigcl/clweb.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Norbert E. Fuchs; Kaarel Kaljurand; Gerold Schneider (2006). "Attempto Controlled English Meets the Challenges of Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, Interoperability and User Interfaces" (PDF). FLAIRS 2006. <a href="http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/publications/papers/FLAIRS0601FuchsN.pdf" target="_blank">http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/publications/papers/FLAIRS0601FuchsN.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Ogden, Charles Kay (1930). Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar. London: Paul Treber & Co., Ltd. <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Common Logic Controlled English". www.jfsowa.com. Retrieved 27 August 2017. <a href="http://www.jfsowa.com/clce/specs.htm" target="_blank">http://www.jfsowa.com/clce/specs.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Kowalski, R., Dávila, J., Sartor, G. and Calejo, M., 2023. Logical English for law and education. In Prolog: The Next 50 Years (pp. 287-299). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Wasik, Szymon; Prejzendanc, Tomasz; Blazewicz, Jacek (2013). "ModeLang: A New Approach for Experts-Friendly Viral Infections Modeling". Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2013: 320715. doi:10.1155/2013/320715. PMC 3878415. PMID 24454531. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878415" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878415</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Schwitter, Rolf; Tilbrook, M (2004). "PENG: Processable ENGlish". Technical Report, Macquarie University, Australia. <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Everson, Michael. "Registration form for 'simple'". IANA. Retrieved 22 April 2021. <a href="/wiki/Michael_Everson" target="_blank">/wiki/Michael_Everson</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>