Entity Identifier: A Natural Text Parsing-based Framework For Entity Relation Extraction

The field of programming has a diversity of paradigms that are used according to the working framework. While current neural code generation methods are able to learn and generate code directly from text, we believe that this approach is not optimal for certain code tasks, particularly the generation of classes in an object-oriented project. Specifically, we use natural language processing techniques to extract structured information from requirements descriptions, in order to automate the generation of CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) class code. To facilitate this process, we introduce a pipeline for extracting entity and relation information, as well as a representation called an "Entity Tree" to model this information. We also create a dataset to evaluate the effectiveness of our approach.Comment: Under review for Elsevier's Natural Language Processing Journa

Generating natural language specifications from UML class diagrams

Early phases of software development are known to be problematic, difficult to manage and errors occurring during these phases are expensive to correct. Many systems have been developed to aid the transition from informal Natural Language requirements to semistructured or formal specifications. Furthermore, consistency checking is seen by many software engineers as the solution to reduce the number of errors occurring during the software development life cycle and allow early verification and validation of software systems. However, this is confined to the models developed during analysis and design and fails to include the early Natural Language requirements. This excludes proper user involvement and creates a gap between the original requirements and the updated and modified models and implementations of the system. To improve this process, we propose a system that generates Natural Language specifications from UML class diagrams. We first investigate the variation of the input language used in naming the components of a class diagram based on the study of a large number of examples from the literature and then develop rules for removing ambiguities in the subset of Natural Language used within UML. We use WordNet,a linguistic ontology, to disambiguate the lexical structures of the UML string names and generate semantically sound sentences. Our system is developed in Java and is tested on an independent though academic case study