Specifying conceptual models using restricted natural language

Bayzid Hossain; Rolf Schwitter

Specifying conceptual models using restricted natural language

Bayzid Hossain, Rolf Schwitter

School of Computing

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The key activity to design an information system is conceptual modelling which brings out and describes the general knowledge that is required to build a system. In this paper we propose a novel approach to conceptual modelling where the domain experts will be able to specify and construct a model using a restricted form of natural language. A restricted natural language is a subset of a natural language that has well-defined computational properties and therefore can be translated unambiguously into a formal notation. We will argue that a restricted natural language is suitable for writing precise and consistent specifications that lead to executable conceptual models. Using a restricted natural language will allow the domain experts to describe a scenario in the terminology of the application domain without the need to formally encode this scenario. The resulting textual specification can then be automatically translated into the language of the desired conceptual modelling framework.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018
Editors	Sunghwan Mac Kim, Xiuzhen (Jenny) Zhang
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	44-52
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018 - The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Duration: 11 Dec 2018 → 12 Dec 2018 http://alta2018.alta.asn.au/

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Conference	Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018
Country/Territory	New Zealand
City	Dunedin
Period	11/12/18 → 12/12/18
Internet address	http://alta2018.alta.asn.au/

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Hossain, B & Schwitter, R 2018, Specifying conceptual models using restricted natural language. in SM Kim & X Zhang (eds), Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 44-52, Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018, Dunedin, New Zealand, 11/12/18. <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/U18-1005>

Specifying conceptual models using restricted natural language. / Hossain, Bayzid; Schwitter, Rolf.
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018. ed. / Sunghwan Mac Kim; Xiuzhen (Jenny) Zhang. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018. p. 44-52.

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