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In this paper we present the initial results from our longitudinal study into the personal semantics of common meta-concepts used in conceptual modeling. People have an implicit understanding of many of the meta-concepts used for modeling purposes, although these are rarely ever made explicit. We argue that a proper understanding of how modelers personally interpret the meta-concepts they use in nearly all of their (domain) models can aid in several things, e.g. explicating a modeler’s (proto)typical concept usage, finding communities that share a conceptual understanding and matching individual modelers to each other. Our initial results include the analysis of data resulting from our study so far and a discussion what hypotheses they support.
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van der Linden, D., Gaaloul, K., Molnar, W. (2012). Initial Results from a Study on Personal Semantics of Conceptual Modeling Languages. In: Bouma, G., Ittoo, A., Métais, E., Wortmann, H. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7337. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31178-9_48
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