Semi-automatic generation of UML models from natural language requirements

Proceedings of the 4th India Software Engineering Conference 2011, ISEC'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 165-174

  Deeptimahanti, Deva Kumar ^a   Sanyal, Ratna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Natural language processing; Requirement engineering; Unified modeling language

Indexed keywords

CASE DIAGRAM; CLASS MODELS; COLLABORATION MODELS; CONCEPT LOCATIONS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DESIGN PHASE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; REQUIREMENT ENGINEERING; REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SEMI-AUTOMATIC GENERATION; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS; UML MODEL; UML MODELING TOOLS; UNIFIED MODELING; VERIFICATION SYSTEMS; XML METADATA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DESIGN; METADATA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 79953878909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953355.1953378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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