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ITA Controlled English (CE)
Controlled English is a form of structured English that allows you to define models of concepts, their properities and relationships, that is both Human and machine readable.
The CE Store contains everything you need to get started with a Controlled English environment.
We are an IBM initiated open source organisation focused on providing an experimental research environment for the ITA Controlled English language.
A CE model contains all of the information about the data loaded into the CE Store. It is built from sentences which contain concepts and instances.
An example of a sentence that defines a concept in CE is as follows:
conceptualise a ~ planet ~ P that has the value M as ~ mass ~ and has the value R as ~ radius ~.
We can then define an instance of a planet called 'Earth' using another CE sentence:
there is a planet named 'Earth' that has '5.972 × 10^24' as mass and has 6371 as radius.
For more detailed examples you can go to the Tutorials section of the wiki or watch a video for a detailed overview with examples (22 mins 48 seconds).
An easy way to get started with Controlled English is through IBM Cloud. You can sign up to IBM Cloud for free, and once you've got an account, clicking the button above will automatically deploy a Cloud-hosted instance of your very own CE Store.