Speaking About Wine: Another Case Study inBridging theGap Between Formal andInformal Knowledge

Book chapter, 2022

This paper presents WineSpeak, a system that uses controlled natural language for translation and information retrieval about the topic of wine. WineSpeakcombines some recent work on natural language interfaces to databases with other recent work on information extraction from heterogeneous sources. It supports database queries about wine in natural language, as well as the translation of questions, comments, and short articles about wine in human-to-human communication. WineSpeakwill be available in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish, but also readily portable to other languages via the use of Grammatical Framework and its Resource Grammar Library (The system will be released in connection to the publication of this volume at https://www.grammaticalframework.org/gf-winespeak/. The final name of the system can be different, to avoid confusion with other similar names)