From Use Cases to UML class diagrams using logic Grammars and constraints

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

Volumn 2007-January, Issue , 2007, Pages 128-132

  Christiansen, Henning ^a   Have, Christian Theil ^b   Tveitane, Knut ^b  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abduction and assumptions; Application of nlp; Domain specific analysis; Logic grammars and constraints

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SYNTACTICS;

ABDUCTION AND ASSUMPTION; APPLICATION OF NLP; BUILDING BLOCKES; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; DOMAIN SPECIFIC ANALYSE; LANGUAGE SYNTAX; LOGIC CONSTRAINTS; LOGIC GRAMMAR; NATURAL LANGUAGES; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84959064488     PISSN: 13138502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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