Generating Natural Language specifications from UML class diagrams

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-18

  Meziane, Farid ^a   Athanasakis, Nikos ^a   Ananiadou, Sophia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION; VALIDATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 38549178356     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00766-007-0054-0     Document Type: Article

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