Natural Language Modeling for Business Application Semantics

Abstract

This paper defines a set of modeling constructs (or meta grammar) and
procedure for modeling the data-perspective or static structure for business
applications and application services in which in principle multiple user
agents can be involved. This approach is called Natural Language Modeling
(NLM) and will enable us to model an application domain ontology for
enterprise application areas. We will illustrate the application of NLM on an
example of a SAP/R3 implementation at a large chemical company. The
scripts that can be generated via the Natural Language Modeling (NLM)
grammar that we will introduce in this paper contain an explicit hierarchy in
which the following ontological primitives for the deep structure will be
distinguished: names intentions and relationships.
Keywords: Natural language Modeling, Business ontologies,
Conceptual modeling, Data model, Information model, ERP implementations,
Shared web semantics