Initial results from a study on personal semantics of conceptual modeling languages

Authors:
Dirk van der Linden;Khaled Gaaloul;Wolfgang Molnar
Affiliations:
Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, Luxembourg,Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, Luxembourg;Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Venue:
NLDB'12 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Applications of Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In this paper we present the initial results from our longitudinal study into the personal semantics of common meta-concepts used in conceptual modeling. People have an implicit understanding of many of the meta-concepts used for modeling purposes, although these are rarely ever made explicit. We argue that a proper understanding of how modelers personally interpret the meta-concepts they use in nearly all of their (domain) models can aid in several things, e.g. explicating a modeler's (proto)typical concept usage, finding communities that share a conceptual understanding and matching individual modelers to each other. Our initial results include the analysis of data resulting from our study so far and a discussion what hypotheses they support.