Linguistic assistant for domain analysis methodology
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1. A method of guiding a user in iteratively deriving object models from documents such as requirements documents and validating such object models against documents, comprising the following steps, which may be applied iteratively and interleaved in any order:
- a) identifying model elements using parts of speech and frequencies of word base forms and noun phrases in a document;
b) establishing associations between the model elements using collocations and textual contexts of the word base forms and noun phrases corresponding to model elements in the document;
c) validating object models using collocations and frequencies of word baseforms and noun phrases in the document, as well as natural language paraphrases of the models.
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A Linguistic Assistant For Domain Analysis Methodology to help a user define object models from documents such as requirements documents and validate object models against such documents. The approach is domain-independent and language-independent, mainly relying on widely available linguistic resources for the text analysis.
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1. A method of guiding a user in iteratively deriving object models from documents such as requirements documents and validating such object models against documents, comprising the following steps, which may be applied iteratively and interleaved in any order:
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a) identifying model elements using parts of speech and frequencies of word base forms and noun phrases in a document;
b) establishing associations between the model elements using collocations and textual contexts of the word base forms and noun phrases corresponding to model elements in the document;
c) validating object models using collocations and frequencies of word baseforms and noun phrases in the document, as well as natural language paraphrases of the models. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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