# References — Linguistic Layer

> **Version:** FLAVOR-1.0.0
> **Status:** All citations verified against linked sources as of 2026-07-30.
> **Unresolved:** Rimay CNL paper author names — link verified, names truncated in sources. Fill in from paper before merging.

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## Primary Standard

- **ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, Issue 9 (January 2025)** — foundational standard. Owned by ASD — Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe, Brussels; maintained by the Simplified Technical English Maintenance Group (STEMG). Copyright and trademark of ASD.
  <https://www.asd-ste100.org/>

- **AECMA / AIA Simplified English lineage** — STE origin: developed late 1970s–1980s by AECMA (now ASD) with AIA, at the request of AEA. Working group founded 30 June 1983, Amsterdam; first Guide 1986; became ASD-STE100 in 2005.

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## Controlled Natural Language Theory

- **Tobias Kuhn** — *A Survey and Classification of Controlled Natural Languages* (Computational Linguistics, 2014; 636+ citations). PENS classification (Precision, Expressiveness, Naturalness, Simplicity).
  <https://aclanthology.org/J14-1005.pdf>

- **Norbert E. Fuchs & Rolf Schwitter** — *Attempto Controlled English (ACE)* (1996+). Machine-processable controlled English, explicit quoting conventions for use–mention distinction.
  <https://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/>
  <https://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/pubs/papers/fuchs-rw2005.pdf>

- **Rimay CNL research** — *On systematically building a controlled natural language for functional requirements* (PubMed). Coverage methodology: 88% of 460 real statements expressible.
  <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34776756/>

- **Controlled Natural Language for Requirements Specification** (ACM, 2025) — taxonomy of four CNL specification techniques.
  <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3778169>

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## Documentation & Readability Research

- **John M. Carroll** — *Minimalism* tradition in technical documentation (ACM SIGDOC). Users act first, read at moment of need.
  <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/296336.296362>

- **Readability in software engineering** — *Assessing the Impact of Readability in Software Engineering* (thesis survey).
  <https://robertominelli.com/assets/downloads/co-supervised-theses/Fiec2020a.pdf>

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## Terminology Extraction & Management

- **Terminology extraction survey** — POS-based candidate extraction → C-value/TF-IDF filtering; modern ML variants gaining ~8.6% accuracy.
  <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00521-023-08960-9>

- **Requirements-glossary extraction** — GlossEx, Sharma et al. semantic filter, Navigli & Velardi domain glossaries, DefMiner (85% F1 definition mining), TBXTools.
  <https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/pubs/AIIA_2007_Navigli_Velardi.pdf>

- **Terminology extraction** (Wikipedia) — established NLP subtask with mature methods.
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_extraction>

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## Verification & Executable Documentation

- **asciidoctest** (PyPI) — verifiable, stateful, interactive documentation with AsciiDoc.
  <https://libraries.io/pypi/asciidoctest>

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## Industrial Reference

- **Acrolinx / DFKI** — full terminology lifecycle: extraction → validation → management → checking. Industrial reference for Workflow 10.5 graduation pipeline.
  <https://www.rws.com/partners/list/acrolinx/>

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## Adjacent Standards & Catalogues

- **Google Style Guides** — <https://google.github.io/styleguide/>
- **Kristories/awesome-guidelines** — <https://github.com/Kristories/awesome-guidelines>
- **github/codeql-coding-standards** — <https://github.com/github/codeql-coding-standards>

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## Intellectual-Property Note

ASD-STE100 is a copyright and trademark of ASD, Brussels. STE-Code adapts its *principles and rule categories* to the software domain; it does not reproduce the standard's dictionary or rule text. Users requiring the authoritative aerospace standard should obtain Issue 9 directly from ASD (free of charge via the official form): <https://www.asd-ste100.org/>.
