From natural language software specifications to UML class models

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 102 LNBIP, Issue , 2012, Pages 224-237

  Bajwa, Imran Sarwar ^a   Choudhary, M Abbas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Automated software modelling; Natural language software specifications; SBVR; UML class models

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION; BUSINESS VOCABULARY; CLASS MODELS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; FORMAL REPRESENTATIONS; HIGHER ORDER LOGIC; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SBVR; SOFTWARE MODEL; SOFTWARE MODELLING; SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION; UML CLASS MODELS;

SPECIFICATIONS;

EID: 84861701554     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29958-2_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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