Semantic Annotation of EPC Models in Engineering Domains to Facilitate an Automated Identification of Common Modelling Practices

Authors
A. Bögl, M. Schrefl, G. Pomberger, N. Weber
Paper
Boeg09a (2009)
Citation
Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2008 revised selected papers), Volume 19,  Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Series Editors: W. van der Aalst, J. Mylopoulos, N. M. Sadeh, M. J. Shaw, C. Szyperski, ISSN 1865-1348, pp. 155-171, 2009.
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Abstract

An automated identification of common modeling practices from EPC (Event-Driven Process Chain) models requires to perform a semantic analysis of EPC functions and events. The 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 that identifies common modeling practices.

Keywords:Semantic Annotation, Semantic Patterns, Semantic EPC Models, Process Ontology