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Semi-automatic Development of Modelling Techniques with Computational Linguistics Methods – A Procedure Model and Its Application

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In recent years, the number of domain-specific modelling techniques increased. Method engineering already provides text-based and semantic approaches which aim to unify constructs and allocate terminologies. As existing procedures are usually carried out manually, challenges arise such as reproducibility and standardization as well as ensuring quality. Hence, this paper aims to investigate how methods from the Computational Linguistics can be applied to automatically develop domain-specific modelling techniques in order to face these challenges. As a main result, we present a procedure model that was developed and applied in four iterations, recommend tools, methods and resources as well as reflect typical issues.

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    http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/ressourcen/lexika/TagSets/stts-table.html .

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    Ontology of German language, www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/GermaNet/ (equivalent: WordNet).

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Acknowledgments

This research is partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the State of Lower Saxony (Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen) in the scope of the research project “SmartHybrid – Process Engineering” (ID: ZW 6-85003451). We like to thank them for their support.

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    Thorsten Schoormann, Dennis Behrens & Ralf Knackstedt

  2. Department of Information Science and Computational Linguistics, University of Hildesheim, Universitätsplatz 1, 31141, Hildesheim, Germany

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Schoormann, T., Behrens, D., Heid, U., Knackstedt, R. (2017). Semi-automatic Development of Modelling Techniques with Computational Linguistics Methods – A Procedure Model and Its Application. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 288. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59336-4_14

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