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Formalizing Linguistic Conventions for Conceptual Models

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A precondition for the appropriate analysis of conceptual models is not only their syntactic correctness but also their semantic comparability. Assuring comparability is challenging especially when models are developed by different persons. Empirical studies show that such models can vary heavily, especially in model element naming, even if they express the same issue. In contrast to most ontology-driven approaches proposing the resolution of these differences ex-post, we introduce an approach that avoids naming differences in conceptual models already during modeling. Therefore we formalize naming conventions combining domain thesauri and phrase structures based on a lin-guistic grammar. This allows for guiding modelers automatically during the modeling process using standardized labels for model elements. Our approach is generic, making it applicable for any modeling language.

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  1. European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS), University of Münster, Leonardo-Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Jörg Becker, Patrick Delfmann, Sebastian Herwig, Łukasz Lis & Armin Stein

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, Prédio do ICEx, sala 4010, Pampulha , Belo, 31270-901, Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Alberto H. F. Laender

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, DICo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Comelico, 39/41, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Silvana Castano

  3. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd., 94304, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Umeshwar Dayal

  4. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Via sommarive 14, 38050, Povo (Trento), Italy

    Fabio Casati

  5. Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Caixa Postal 15.064, 91.501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

    José Palazzo M. de Oliveira

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Becker, J., Delfmann, P., Herwig, S., Lis, Ł., Stein, A. (2009). Formalizing Linguistic Conventions for Conceptual Models. In: Laender, A.H.F., Castano, S., Dayal, U., Casati, F., de Oliveira, J.P.M. (eds) Conceptual Modeling - ER 2009. ER 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5829. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04840-1_8

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