Reasoning about Use Cases using Logic Grammars and Constraints

Beskrivelse

We consider automated transition from Use Cases in a restricted natural language syntax into UML models, by trying to capture the semantics of the natural language and map it into building blocks of the object oriented programming paradigm.

Syntax and semantic analysis is done in a framework of Definite Clause Grammars extended with Constraint Handling Rules, which

generalizes previous approaches with a direct way to express domain knowledge utilized in the interpretation process as well as  stating explicit rules for pronoun resolution