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P. Brosch, A. Randak:
"Position Paper: m2n-A Tool for Translating Models to Natural Language Descriptions";
Electronic Communications of the EASST, Software Modeling in Education at MODELS 2010 (2010), 34.

To describe the structure of a system, the UML Class Diagram yields

the means-of-choice. Therefor, the Class Diagram provides concepts like class, attribute, operation, association, generalization, aggregation, enumeration, etc. When
students are introduced to this diagram, they often have to solve exercises where
texts in natural language are given and they have to model the described systems.

When analyzing such exercises, it becomes evident that certain kinds of phrases describing a particular concept appear again and again contextualized to the described
domain.

In this paper, we present an approach which allows the automatic generation of textual specifications from a given Class Diagram based on standard phrases in natural
language. Besides supporting teachers in preparing exercises, such an approach is
also valuable for various e-learning scenarios.

modeling exercises, natural language description

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_197852.pdf

Project Head Gerti Kappel:
AMOR: Adaptable Model Versioning