A System that Translates Conceptual Structures into English

Conceptual Structures (CS) is a modern, structural knowledge representation language that is gaining popularity across diverse applications. Although simple in notation, large graphs are a potential source of confusion for the human user. In this paper, we describe an implemented system that can translate arbitrarily complex CS graphs into plain English statements. The system can assist the user in interpreting graphs that result from long reasoning chains of the Unified Reasoning Process' (URP) reasoning mechanism, and in validating the correct parsing of the graphs when entering propositions to the URP. The system has been successfully incorporated into the URP system support tools.