Natural Language–Based Conceptual Modelling Frameworks: State of the Art and Future Opportunities

BA Hossain, MSH Mukta, MA Islam, A Zaman… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Identifying requirements for an information system is an important task and conceptual
modelling is the first step in this process. Conceptual modelling plays a critical role in the …

Extracting declarative process models from natural language

H van der Aa, C Di Ciccio, H Leopold… - … Systems Engineering: 31st …, 2019 - Springer
Process models are an important means to capture information on organizational operations
and often represent the starting point for process analysis and improvement. Since the …

Comparing textual descriptions to process models–the automatic detection of inconsistencies

H Van der Aa, H Leopold, HA Reijers - Information Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Many organizations maintain textual process descriptions alongside graphical process
models. The purpose is to make process information accessible to various stakeholders …

Checking process compliance against natural language specifications using behavioral spaces

H Van der Aa, H Leopold, HA Reijers - Information Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
Textual process descriptions are widely used in organizations since they can be created and
understood by virtually everyone. Because of their widespread use, they also provide a …

Causality in requirements artifacts: prevalence, detection, and impact

J Frattini, J Fischbach, D Mendez… - Requirements …, 2023 - Springer
Causal relations in natural language (NL) requirements convey strong, semantic
information. Automatically extracting such causal information enables multiple use cases …

Enabling reasoning with LegalRuleML

HP Lam, M Hashmi - Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 2019 - cambridge.org
In order to automate verification process, regulatory rules written in natural language need to
be translated into a format that machines can understand. However, none of the existing …

Natural language processing in business process identification and modeling: a systematic literature review

AC de Almeida Bordignon, LH Thom, TS Silva… - Proceedings of the XIV …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Business Process Management (BPM) has been receiving increasing attention in recent
years. Many organizations have been adapting their business to a process-centered view …

Aligning textual and model-based process descriptions

J Sànchez-Ferreres, H van der Aa, J Carmona… - Data & Knowledge …, 2018 - Elsevier
Process model descriptions are an ubiquitous source of information that exists in any
organization. To reach different types of stakeholders, distinct descriptions are often kept, so …

Detecting constraints and their relations from regulatory documents using nlp techniques

K Winter, S Rinderle-Ma - On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems …, 2018 - Springer
Extracting constraints and process models from natural language text is an ongoing
challenge. While the focus of current research is merely on the extraction itself, this paper …

The semantic of business vocabulary and business rules: An automatic generation from textual statements

A Haj, A Jarrar, Y Balouki, T Gadir - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the early phases of the software development process, specifications are mostly written in
a natural language rather than formal models, which is not supported by the Model Driven …