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The support systems for conceptual modeling of today lack natural language feedback. The paper argues for the need of natural language discourse for the validation of a conceptual model. Based on this conclusion a suggestion is made on a natural language discourse generation system as a validation tool and also as a support tool in simulating a conceptual model. Various appropriate natural language discourses are then proposed in the paper. To conclude the paper a support system based on the natural language generation techniques of today and on previous working systems constructed by the author is suggested.
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Dalianis, H. (1992). A method for validating a conceptual model by natural language discourse generation. In: Loucopoulos, P. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 593. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035146
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