Ensuring Action: Identifying Unclear Actor Specifications in Textual Business Process Descriptions
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2016
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04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift
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Ana, Fred
Aveiro, David
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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (KMIS), 2016
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Springer
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Porto
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Zusammenfassung
In many organisations, business process (BP) descriptions are available in the form of written procedures, or
operational manuals. These documents are expressed in informal natural language, which is inherently open
to different interpretations. Hence, the content of these documents might be incorrectly interpreted by those
who have to put the process into practice. It is therefore important to identify language defects in written
BP descriptions, to ensure that BPs are properly carried out. Among the potential defects, one of the most
relevant for BPs is the absence of clear actors in action-related sentences. Indeed, an unclear actor might lead
to a missing responsibility, and, in turn, to activities that are never performed. This paper aims at identifying
unclear actors in BP descriptions expressed in natural language. To this end, we define an algorithm named
ABIDE, which leverages rule-based natural language processing (NLP) techniques. We evaluate the algorithm
on a manually annotated data-set of 20 real-world BP descriptions (1,029 sentences). ABIDE achieves a recall
of 87%, and a precision of 56%. We consider these results promising. Improvements of the algorithm are also
discussed in the paper.
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business process management, quality assessment, natural language processing
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Englisch
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SANNE, Ulf, Alessio FERRARI, Stefania GNESI und Hans Friedrich WITSCHEL, 2016. Ensuring Action: Identifying Unclear Actor Specifications in Textual Business Process Descriptions. In: Fred ANA und David AVEIRO (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (KMIS), 2016. Porto: Springer. 2016. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-1003