Natural Language in Business Process Models - Theoretical Foundations, Techniques, and Applications

Natural language is one of the most important means of human communication. It enables us to express our will, to exchange thoughts and to document our knowledge in written sources. Owing to its substantial role in many facets of human life, technology for automatically analyzing and processing natural language has recently become increasingly important. In fact, natural language processing tools have paved the way for entirely new business opportunities.
The goal of this book is to facilitate the automatic analysis of natural language in process models and to employ this analysis for assisting process model stakeholders. Therefore, a technique is defined that automatically recognizes and annotates process model element labels. In addition, this technique is leveraged to support organizations in effectively utilizing their process models in various ways.
The book is organized into seven chapters. It starts with an overview of business process management and linguistics and continues with conceptual contributions on parsing and annotating process model elements, with the detection and correction of process model guideline violations, with the generation of natural language from process models and finally ends with the derivation of service candidates from process models.

Sommario

1 Business Process Management.- 2 Linguistics.- 3 Parsing and Annotating Process Model Elements.- 4 Detecting and Correcting Linguistic Guideline Violations.- 5 Generation of Natural Language Texts from Process Models.- 6 Service Derivation from Process Models.- 7 Conclusion.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Henrik Leopold
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.12.2013
• EAN: 9783319041742
• ISBN: 978-3-31-904174-2
• Pagine: 181
• Dimensioni: 157 mm x 13 mm x 236 mm
• Peso: 318 g
• Illustrazioni: XXII, 181 p. 35 illus.
• Serie: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; C, computer science, Information Retrieval, IT in Business, Public Administration, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computer and Information Systems Applications, Application software, Information Technology, Management science, Information technology: general issues, Internet searching, Business—Data processing, Business applications, Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing, Computational Linguistics, Natural language & machine translation, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural language processing (Computer science), Computer Application in Administrative Data Processing