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Automated testing plays a crucial role in ensuring software security. It heavily relies on formal specifications to validate the correctness of the system behavior. However, the main approach to defining these formal specifications is…

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This literature review studies the field of automated process extraction, i.e., transforming textual descriptions into structured processes using Natural Language Processing (NLP). We found that Machine Learning (ML) / Deep Learning (DL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 William Van Woensel , Soroor Motie

Creating a descriptive grammar of a language is an indispensable step for language documentation and preservation. However, at the same time it is a tedious, time-consuming task. In this paper, we take steps towards automating this process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Aditi Chaudhary , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Adithya Pratapa , David R. Mortensen , Zaid Sheikh , Yulia Tsvetkov , Graham Neubig

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a standard for modeling dynamic systems. UML behavioral state machines are used for modeling the dynamic behavior of object-oriented designs. The UML specification, maintained by the Object Management…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Étienne André , Shuang Liu , Yang Liu , Christine Choppy , Jun Sun , Jin Song Dong

The work concerns automatic generation of logical specifications from requirements models. Logical specifications obtained in such a way can be subjected to formal verification using deductive reasoning. Formal verification concerns…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Radoslaw Klimek

Complementing natural language (NL) requirements with graphical models can improve stakeholders' communication and provide directions for system design. However, creating models from requirements involves manual effort. The advent of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Alessio Ferrari , Sallam Abualhaija , Chetan Arora

Defining semantics for UML is a difficult task. Disagreements in the meaning of UML constructs as well as the size of UML are major obstacles. In this report, we describe our approach to define the semantics for UML. Semantics is defined…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Maria Victoria Cengarle , Hans Grönninger , Bernhard Rumpe

Context: Having domain models derived from textual specifications has proven to be very useful in the early phases of software engineering. However, creating correct domain models and establishing clear links with the textual specification…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shwetali Shimangaud , Lola Burgueño , Rijul Saini , Jörg Kienzle

Automating code documentation through explanatory text can prove highly beneficial in code understanding. Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable strides in Natural Language Processing, especially within software engineering tasks…

We propose using natural language outlines as a novel modality and interaction surface for providing AI assistance to developers throughout the software development process. An NL outline for a code function comprises multiple statements…

The paper presents a data-driven approach to information extraction (viewed as template filling) using the structured language model (SLM) as a statistical parser. The task of template filling is cast as constrained parsing using the SLM.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ciprian Chelba , Milind Mahajan

Ontologies are essential for structuring domain knowledge, improving accessibility, sharing, and reuse. However, traditional ontology construction relies on manual annotation and conventional natural language processing (NLP) techniques,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xuan Liu , Ziyu Li , Mu He , Ziyang Ma , Xiaoxu Wu , Gizem Yilmaz , Yiyuan Xia , Bingbing Li , He Tan , Jerry Ying Hsi Fuh , Wen Feng Lu , Anders E. W. Jarfors , Per Jansson

The Unified Modelling Language is emerging as a de-facto standard for modelling object-oriented systems. However, the semantics document that a part of the standard definition primarily provides a description of the language's syntax and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-25 Andy Evans , Kevin Lano , Robert France , Bernhard Rumpe

Text structuralization is one of the important fields of natural language processing (NLP) consists of information extraction (IE) and structure formalization. However, current studies of text structuralization suffer from a shortage of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xuanfan Ni , Piji Li , Huayang Li

In this paper, we investigate the potential of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) for grading Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagrams. In contrast to existing work, which primarily evaluates proprietary LLMs, we focus on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Matthijs Jansen op de Haar , Nacir Bouali , Faizan Ahmed

Machine Learning (ML) is increasingly used to automate impactful decisions, which leads to concerns regarding their correctness, reliability, and fairness. We envision highly-automated software platforms to assist data scientists with…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Stefan Grafberger

Recently, attention has focused on the software development, specially by differ-ent teams that are geographically distant to support collaborative work. Manage-ment, description and modeling in such collaborative approach are through…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Hicham Elasri , Elmustapha Elabbassi , Sekkaki Abderrahim , Muhammad Fahad

Analyzing network topologies and communication graphs plays a crucial role in contemporary network management. However, the absence of a cohesive approach leads to a challenging learning curve, heightened errors, and inefficiencies. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Sathiya Kumaran Mani , Yajie Zhou , Kevin Hsieh , Santiago Segarra , Ranveer Chandra , Srikanth Kandula

Over the past decade, extensive research efforts have been dedicated to the extraction of information from textual process descriptions. Despite the remarkable progress witnessed in natural language processing (NLP), information extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Julian Neuberger , Lars Ackermann , Han van der Aa , Stefan Jablonski

Process model extraction (PME) is a recently emerged interdiscipline between natural language processing (NLP) and business process management (BPM), which aims to extract process models from textual descriptions. Previous process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Chen Qian , Lijie Wen , Akhil Kumar , Leilei Lin , Li Lin , Zan Zong , Shuang Li , Jianmin Wang