Open AccessBPM2Text: A language independent framework for Business Process Models to Natural Language Text
Author(s) -
Raphael de Almeida Rodrigues,
Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo,
Kate Revoredo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
isys
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1984-2902
DOI - 10.5753/isys.2016.320
Subject(s) - business process model and notation , computer science , business process modeling , business rule , process modeling , business process , artifact centric business process model , process (computing) , natural language , representation (politics) , natural language processing , notation , programming language , software engineering , work in process , linguistics , engineering , operations management , philosophy , politics , law , political science
The proper representation of a Business process is important for itsexecution and understanding. BPMN has been used as the standard notationfor business process models, however domain specialists, which are experts inthe business, do not have necessarily the modeling skills to easily read a businessprocess model. It is easier for them to read in natural language. In thiswork, we propose a language-independent framework, instantiated using Javastandard technology, for generating automatically natural language texts frombusiness process models. A case study was conducted to evaluate the quality ofthe generated text. We found empirical support that the textual work instructionscan be considered equivalent, in terms of knowledge representation, to processmodels represented in BPMN. Regarding the framework output quality (textualdescriptions) 86% of the subjects claims that it vary from excellent to good.