SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF EPC MODELS IN ENGINEERING DOMAINS BY EMPLOYING SEMANTIC PATTERNS

Andreas Bögl, Michael Schrefl, Gustav Pomberger, Norbert Weber

2008

Abstract

Extracting process patterns from EPC (Event-Driven Process Chain) models requires to perform a semantic analysis of EPC functions and events. An automated semantic analysis faces the problem that an essential part of the EPC semantics is bound to natural language expressions in functions and events with undefined process semantics. The semantic annotation of natural language expressions provides an adequate approach to tackle this problem. This paper introduces a novel approach that enables an automated semantic annotation of EPC functions and events. It employs semantic patterns to analyze the textual structure of natural language expressions and to relate them to instances of a reference ontology. Thus, semantically annotated EPC model elements are input for subsequent semantic analysis.

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Bögl A., Schrefl M., Pomberger G. and Weber N. (2008). SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF EPC MODELS IN ENGINEERING DOMAINS BY EMPLOYING SEMANTIC PATTERNS . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-37-1, pages 106-115. DOI: 10.5220/0001716601060115


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@conference{iceis08,
author={Andreas Bögl and Michael Schrefl and Gustav Pomberger and Norbert Weber},
title={SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF EPC MODELS IN ENGINEERING DOMAINS BY EMPLOYING SEMANTIC PATTERNS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={106-115},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001716601060115},
isbn={978-989-8111-37-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF EPC MODELS IN ENGINEERING DOMAINS BY EMPLOYING SEMANTIC PATTERNS
SN - 978-989-8111-37-1
AU - Bögl A.
AU - Schrefl M.
AU - Pomberger G.
AU - Weber N.
PY - 2008
SP - 106
EP - 115
DO - 10.5220/0001716601060115