Pre-conceptual schema: a conceptual-graph-like knowledge representation for requirements elicitation

Authors:
Carlos Mario Zapata Jaramillo;Alexander Gelbukh;Fernando Arango Isaza
Affiliations:
Facultad de Minas, Escuela de Sistemas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia;Computing Research Center (CIC), National Polytechnic Institute, Col. Zacatenco, DF, Mexico;Facultad de Minas, Escuela de Sistemas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
Venue:
MICAI'06 Proceedings of the 5th Mexican international conference on Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2006

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Abstract

A simple representation framework for ontological knowledge with dynamic and deontic characteristics is presented. It represents structural relationships (is-a, part/whole), dynamic relationships (actions such as register, pay, etc.), and conditional relationships (if-then-else). As a case study, we apply our representation language to the task of requirements elicitation in software engineering. We show how our pre-conceptual schemas can be obtained from controlled natural language discourse and how these diagrams can be then converted into standard UML diagrams. Thus our representation framework is shown to be a useful intermediate step for obtaining UML diagrams from natural language discourse.