naturalfromal
Naturalfromal is a term used to describe an integrated approach that fuses natural language understanding with formal representation systems. The aim is to let users express requirements, specifications, or queries in natural language while ensuring content can be processed unambiguously by machines through formal semantics.
Origin and usage: The term appears in interdisciplinary discussions at the intersection of linguistics, computer science,
Core concepts: Naturalfromal approaches rely on a bidirectional pipeline: parsing natural language to a formal representation,
Applications: Requirements specification, knowledge engineering, formal verification, program synthesis, and advanced conversational agents. The approach supports
Example: The sentence "Every customer who placed an order must be billed" can be translated into a
Criticism and challenges: Challenges include scalability, rigidity, and the need for collaboration between domain experts and
See also: natural language processing, formal methods, controlled natural language, semantic parsing.