Conceptual modeling through linguistic analysis using LIDA
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
RE '06 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
Wide-coverage semantic representations from a CCG parser
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Checking Traces for Regulatory Conformance
Runtime Verification
Regulations Expressed As Logical Models (REALM)
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2005: The Eighteenth Annual Conference
Innovations for Requirement Analysis. From Stakeholders' Needs to Formal Designs
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In this paper, we describe an approach to formally assess whether an organization conforms to a body of regulation. Conformance is cast as a model checking question where the regulation is represented in a logic that is evaluated against an abstract model representing the operations of an organization. Regulatory bases are large and complex, and the long term goal of our work is to be able to use natural language processing (NLP) to assist in the translation of regulation to logic. We argue that the translation of regulation to logic should proceed one sentence at a time. A challenge in taking this approach arises from the fact that sentences is regulation often refer to others. We motivate the need for a formal representation of regulation to accomodate references between statements. We briefy describe a logic in which statements can refer to and reason about others. We then discuss preliminary work on using NLP to assist in the translation of regulatory sentences into logic.