Abstract
Manual extraction of business process models from technical documentation is a time-consuming task. Several approaches to generating such process models have been proposed. We present a proposal of a new method for extracting business process from natural language text through intermediate process model using the spreadsheet-based representation. Such intermediate model is transformed into a valid BPMN process model. Our method is enhanced with semantic analysis of the text, allows for quick check of the transformation result and manual correction during this process. As the obtained BPMN model is structured, it is easier to check its correctness.
The paper is supported by the AGH UST research grant.
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Honkisz, K., Kluza, K., Wiśniewski, P. (2018). A Concept for Generating Business Process Models from Natural Language Description. In: Liu, W., Giunchiglia, F., Yang, B. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11061. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99365-2_8
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