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Working Notes from the 1992 AAAI Workshop on Automating Software Design. Theme: Domain Specific Software Design
The goal of this workshop is to identify different architectural approaches to building domain-specific software design systems and to explore issues unique to domain-specific (vs. general-purpose) software design. Some general issues that cut across the particular software design domain include: (1) knowledge representation, acquisition, and maintenance; (2) specialized software design techniques; and (3) user interaction and user interface
Automatic Transformation of Natural to Unified Modeling Language: A Systematic Review
Context: Processing Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) manually takes
a much longer time for requirement analysts in software engineering.
Researchers have been working on making an automatic approach to ease this
task. Most of the existing approaches require some intervention from an analyst
or are challenging to use. Some automatic and semi-automatic approaches were
developed based on heuristic rules or machine learning algorithms. However,
there are various constraints to the existing approaches of UML generation,
such as restriction on ambiguity, length or structure, anaphora,
incompleteness, atomicity of input text, requirements of domain ontology, etc.
Objective: This study aims to better understand the effectiveness of existing
systems and provide a conceptual framework with further improvement guidelines.
Method: We performed a systematic literature review (SLR). We conducted our
study selection into two phases and selected 70 papers. We conducted
quantitative and qualitative analyses by manually extracting information,
cross-checking, and validating our findings. Result: We described the existing
approaches and revealed the issues observed in these works. We identified and
clustered both the limitations and benefits of selected articles. Conclusion:
This research upholds the necessity of a common dataset and evaluation
framework to extend the research consistently. It also describes the
significance of natural language processing obstacles researchers face. In
addition, it creates a path forward for future research
Incremental Query Generatio
International audienceWe present a natural language generation system which supports the incremental specification of ontology-based queries in natural language. Our contribution is two fold. First, we introduce a chart based surface realisation algorithm which supports the kind of incremental processing required by ontology-based querying. Crucially, this algorithm avoids confusing the end user by preserving a consistent ordering of the query elements throughout the incremental query formulation process. Second, we show that grammar based surface realisation better supports the generation of fluent, natural sounding queries than previous template-based approaches
A Look Back on the XML Benchmark Project
The XML Benchmark Project was started to provide a framework for evaluating the interplay of XML technologies and Database Management Systems. The benchmark lays emphasis on engineering aspects as well as on performance of the query processor. In this chapter the authors present a quick overview of the benchmark and point at some of the experience they gathered during the design of the benchmark and while running it on a variety of platforms. Since the benchmark was designed early in the evolution of XML, our experiences also reflect how the perception of XML changed during the three years that have passed since we started working on the subject. The chapter comprises an overview of the benchmark as well as discussions of some lessons learned
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