Generating natural language texts from business process models

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7328 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 64-79

  Leopold, Henrik ^a   Mendling, Jan ^b   Polyvyanyy, Artem ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business Process Models; Natural Language Generation; Verbalization

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ANALYSTS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; DOMAIN EXPERTS; GRAPH DECOMPOSITIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT; OBJECT-ROLE MODELING; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS MODELING; PROTOTYPICAL IMPLEMENTATION; TEST SETS; VERBALIZATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84867786270     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31095-9_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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