[cuo-wg] English vs Technical Notation for OWL

["Adrian Walker" <adriandwalker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All --

I have been advocating the idea that some form of executable English can help for CDSI, as you may have noticed (:-).

Below is some correspondence among OWL folks, apparently about some data supporting this general view.

It's probably about controlled English, but even that seems to have measurable advantages.  

Uncontrolled, open vocabulary, open syntax executable English is likely even more useful.

                                                             
Cheers,  -- Adrian

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From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    to         Kaarel Kaljurand <kaljurand@xxxxxxxxx>     
    cc     
     Dan Connolly <connolly@xxxxxx>,Anne Cregan <annec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
        public-owl-dev@xxxxxx     
    date        Nov 29, 2006 6:29 AM     
    subject        Re: OWL "Sydney Syntax", structured english
It's not in the latest version of Swoop, but here's the paper
describing our pilot, focused, study:
       
http://image.ntua.gr/swamm2006/resources/paper11.pdf

The key bit (which was a surprise to me):

       """Using a Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks test, we found
that the NL format significantly outperformed the Concise Format (ranked
second on average) for both Anjou and Beaujolais with p<0.05. There
was not a significant benefit over the Concise format for the
simplest class, AlsatianWine, but NL did significantly outperform the
Abstract Syntax, which was the average third ranked format. This
allows us to conclude that in the pilot study the NL format offers
significant benefits to users when they are trying to understand the
meaning of classes, particularly complex classes. """

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