CM-Builder: An automated NL-based CASE tool

Proceedings ASE 2000: 15th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 45-53

  Harmain, H M ^a   Gaizauskas, R ^b  

^a SEBHA UNIVERSITY   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; OBJECT-ORIENTED FRAMEWORKS; SEMANTIC NETWORK; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS; UML CLASS MODELS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 47749124488     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2000.873649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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