The Process Highlighter: From Texts to Declarative Processes and Back

Hugo-Andrés López-Acosta; Thomas Hildebrandt; Søren Debois; Morten Marquard

The Process Highlighter: From Texts to Declarative Processes and Back

Hugo-Andrés López-Acosta, Thomas Hildebrandt, Søren Debois, Morten Marquard

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The adoption of formal models by process specialists has faced two challenges: First, it requires process specialists to get training in formal modeling. Second, the resulting specifications bear little resemblance wrt. the original descriptions. We introduce a tool that supports translations between natural language descriptions and declarative process models. The resulting models are given in a graphical formalism, DCR Graphs. Traceability is at the core of the tool: Later changes in the process model due to, e.g., ambiguity resolution are traced back into the text. This allows users to either correct and complete their descriptions, or to derive models more refined than the text. In this paper, we describe the mechanics of the tool and provide examples of its use. Finally, we report on experiences using the tool in a Danish Municipal government.

Original language	English

Place of Publication	Copenhagen
Publisher	IT-Universitetet i København
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Print)	978-87-7949-370-4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-87-7949-370-4
Publication status	Published - 28 Sept 2018

Series	IT University Technical Report Series
ISSN	1600-6100

Keywords

Process Models
Business Process Management
Process highlighter
Digitalization
Process change
Law modelling

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The Process Highlighter: From Texts to Declarative Processes and Back
López-Acosta, H.-A., Hildebrandt, T., Debois, S. & Marquard, M., 10 Sept 2018, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. p. 66-70 5 p.
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