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Reasoning in Attempto Controlled English: Non-monotonicity

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RACE is a first-order reasoner with equality for Attempto Controlled English (ACE) that can show the consistency of a set of ACE axioms and deduce ACE theorems and ACE queries from ACE axioms. This paper presents various forms of non-monotonic reasoning.

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    http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/.

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    http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/race/.

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    http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/resources/.

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    http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/docs/.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-monotonic_logic.

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    http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/race/.

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    http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/ws/race/racews.perl.

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    http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/resources/.

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    A clause is called range-restricted if all variables of its head occur already in its body. Clauses derived from discourse representation structures are by default range-restricted.

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    http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/tkren/pub/2009/rw2009-asp.pdf.

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    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-nonmonotonic/.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_translation.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-world_assumption.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negation_as_failure.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_problem.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_problem#Default_logic_solution.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_problem#Answer_set_programming_solution.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_logic_programming.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_logic_programming#Example_1.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers of the first version of this paper for their constructive comments. Many thanks go to the Department of Informatics and the Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, for their hospitality.

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  2. University of Malta , Msida, Malta

    Gordon J. Pace

  3. University of Aberdeen , Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    Adam Wyner

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Fuchs, N.E. (2016). Reasoning in Attempto Controlled English: Non-monotonicity. In: Davis, B., Pace, G., Wyner, A. (eds) Controlled Natural Language. CNL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9767. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41498-0_2

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