Shangguan Journal CNLPresentation Joshua Shinavier 1

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The Question is: I am inclined to disagree with the authors' statement that "what is urgently required is a high-level interface language to the Semantic Web...", with which they motivate their innovation. Is it necessary for novice Web users to express RDF statements/graphs directly? It seems that novice users should deal with RDF only indirectly, through use of special-purpose interfaces which generate metadata on their behalf. Furthermore, the idea of an interface language is misleading, as the CNL tool (the "look-ahead text editor") is actually a GUI in disguise. The CNL expressions alone evidently cannot be decompiled to RDF.

Question asked	I am inclined to disagree with the authors … I am inclined to disagree with the authors' statement that "what is urgently required is a high-level interface language to the Semantic Web...", with which they motivate their innovation. Is it necessary for novice Web users to express RDF statements/graphs directly? It seems that novice users should deal with RDF only indirectly, through use of special-purpose interfaces which generate metadata on their behalf. Furthermore, the idea of an interface language is misleading, as the CNL tool (the "look-ahead text editor") is actually a GUI in disguise. The CNL expressions alone evidently cannot be decompiled to RDF. one evidently cannot be decompiled to RDF.
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