AceWiki is a semantic wiki that is powerful and at the same time easy to use. Making use of the controlled natural language ACE, the articles in the wiki are composed of formal statements that look like natural English.
See the following demo video for a first impression of AceWiki:
There are two demo wikis (registration/login required for editing):
Feel free to extend and change the content of these demo wikis. There is also a sandbox wiki for testing purposes (no registration/login required):
AceWiki can be downloaded here:
The AceWiki code is hosted on GitHub. See the README file for the details on how to set up AceWiki:
Furthermore, there exists a server appliance for AceWiki created with SUSE Studio:
Previously, Launchpad was used instead of GitHub. Old packages and old bug reports can still be found there:
AceWiki is open source software under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
See the following publications for more details on AceWiki:
[8] Tobias Kuhn. Controlled English for Knowledge Representation. Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology of the University of Zurich, 2010.
[7] Juri Luca De Coi, Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn. Controlled English for Reasoning on the Semantic Web. In Francois Bry and Jan Maluszynski, editors, Semantic Techniques for the Web — The REWERSE Perspective, number 5500 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 276–308. Springer, 2009.
[6] Tobias Kuhn. How Controlled English Can Improve Semantic Wikis. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Semantic Wikis, European Semantic Web Conference 2009, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2009.
[5] Tobias Kuhn. Combining Semantic Wikis and Controlled Natural Language. In Proceedings of the Poster and Demonstration Session at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2008.
[4] Tobias Kuhn, Rolf Schwitter. Writing Support for Controlled Natural Languages. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) Workshop, 2008.
[3] Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, Tobias Kuhn. Attempto Controlled English for Knowledge Representation. In Cristina Baroglio, Piero A. Bonatti, Jan Maluszynski, Massimo Marchiori, Axel Polleres, Sebastian Schaffert (editors), Reasoning Web, Fourth International Summer School 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, number 5224, pages 104–124, 2008.
[2] Tobias Kuhn. AceWiki: Collaborative Ontology Management in Controlled Natural Language. In Proceedings of the 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2008.
[1] Tobias Kuhn. AceWiki: A Natural and Expressive Semantic Wiki. In Proceedings of Semantic Web User Interaction at CHI 2008: Exploring HCI Challenges, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2008.
Please report bugs and problems on GitHub. For private messages, you can contact Tobias Kuhn directly.