兰德尔·门罗的“事物解释者”的受控自然语言
The Controlled Natural Language of Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer
摘要：
用受控自然语言（CNL）编写的文本或整本书很少会非常受欢迎，但去年出版的一本书确实如此。Randall Munroe的Thing Explainer只使用了1 '000个最常用的英语单词，并配以图画来解释复杂的事物，如核反应堆，喷气发动机，太阳系和洗碗机。这种受限语言对于CNL社区来说是一个非常有趣的新案例。我在这里描述它的地方在现有的方法控制自然语言的背景下，我提供了第一个分析从科学的角度来看，涵盖了字的产生式规则和字的分布。
英文摘要：
It is rare that texts or entire books written in a Controlled Natural Language (CNL) become very popular, but exactly this has happened with a book that has been published last year. Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer uses only the 1'000 most often used words of the English language together with drawn pictures to explain complicated things such as nuclear reactors, jet engines, the solar system, and dishwashers. This restricted language is a very interesting new case for the CNL community. I describe here its place in the context of existing approaches on Controlled Natural Languages, and I provide a first analysis from a scientific perspective, covering the word production rules and word distributions.
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