CM-Builder: A natural language-based CASE tool for object-oriented analysis

Automated Software Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 157-181

  Harmain, H M ^a   Gaizauskas, R ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation of language processing technology; Natural language processing; Object oriented analysis; Software requirements text analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037385209     PISSN: 09288910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022916028950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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