Towards a more natural multilingual controlled language interface to OWL

The paper presents an ongoing research that aims at OWL ontology authoring and verbalization using a deterministic controlled natural language (CNL) that would be as natural and intuitive as possible. Moreover, we focus on a multilingual CNL interface to OWL by considering both highly analytical and highly synthetic languages (namely, English and Latvian). We propose a flexible two-level translation approach that is enabled by the Grammatical Framework and that has allowed us to develop a more natural, but still predictable multilingual CNL on top of the widely used Attempto Controlled English (its subset for OWL, ACE-OWL). This has also allowed us to exploit the readily available ACE parser and verbalizer not only for the modified and extended version of ACE-OWL, but also for the corresponding controlled Latvian.