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    <abstract>The key activity to design an information system is conceptual modelling which brings out and describes the general knowledge that is required to build a system. In this paper we propose a novel approach to conceptual modelling where the domain experts will be able to specify and construct a model using a restricted form of natural language. A restricted natural language is a subset of a natural language that has well-defined computational properties and therefore can be translated unambiguously into a formal notation. We will argue that a restricted natural language is suitable for writing precise and consistent specifications that lead to executable conceptual models. Using a restricted natural language will allow the domain experts to describe a scenario in the terminology of the application domain without the need to formally encode this scenario. The resulting textual specification can then be automatically translated into the language of the desired conceptual modelling framework.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Specifying Conceptual Models Using Restricted Natural Language
%A Hossain, Bayzid Ashik
%A Schwitter, Rolf
%Y Kim, Sunghwan Mac
%Y Zhang, Xiuzhen (Jenny)
%S Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018
%D 2018
%8 December
%C Dunedin, New Zealand
%F hossain-schwitter-2018-specifying
%X The key activity to design an information system is conceptual modelling which brings out and describes the general knowledge that is required to build a system. In this paper we propose a novel approach to conceptual modelling where the domain experts will be able to specify and construct a model using a restricted form of natural language. A restricted natural language is a subset of a natural language that has well-defined computational properties and therefore can be translated unambiguously into a formal notation. We will argue that a restricted natural language is suitable for writing precise and consistent specifications that lead to executable conceptual models. Using a restricted natural language will allow the domain experts to describe a scenario in the terminology of the application domain without the need to formally encode this scenario. The resulting textual specification can then be automatically translated into the language of the desired conceptual modelling framework.
%U https://aclanthology.org/U18-1005
%P 44-52

Markdown (Informal)

[Specifying Conceptual Models Using Restricted Natural Language](https://aclanthology.org/U18-1005) (Hossain & Schwitter, ALTA 2018)

• Specifying Conceptual Models Using Restricted Natural Language (Hossain & Schwitter, ALTA 2018)

ACL

• Bayzid Ashik Hossain and Rolf Schwitter. 2018. Specifying Conceptual Models Using Restricted Natural Language. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018, pages 44–52, Dunedin, New Zealand.