TY - GEN
T1 - From natural language to formal proof goal* structured goal formalisation applied to medical guidelines (extended abstract)
AU - Stegers, Ruud
AU - Teije, Annette Ten
AU - Van Harmelen, Frank
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The main problem encountered when starting verification of goals for some formal system, is the ambiguity of those goals when they are specified in natural language. To verify goals given in natural language, a translation of those goals to the formalism of the verification tool is required. The main concern is to assure equivalence of the final translation and the original. A structured method is required to assure equivalence in every case. This article proposes a goal formalisation method in five steps, in which the domain expert is involved in such a way that the correctness of the result can be assured. The contribution of this article is a conceptual goal model, a formal expression language for this model, and a structured method which transforms any input goal to a fully formalised goal in the required target formalism. The proposed formalisation method guarantees essential properties like correctness, traceability, reduced variability and reusability.
AB - The main problem encountered when starting verification of goals for some formal system, is the ambiguity of those goals when they are specified in natural language. To verify goals given in natural language, a translation of those goals to the formalism of the verification tool is required. The main concern is to assure equivalence of the final translation and the original. A structured method is required to assure equivalence in every case. This article proposes a goal formalisation method in five steps, in which the domain expert is involved in such a way that the correctness of the result can be assured. The contribution of this article is a conceptual goal model, a formal expression language for this model, and a structured method which transforms any input goal to a fully formalised goal in the required target formalism. The proposed formalisation method guarantees essential properties like correctness, traceability, reduced variability and reusability.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33750729214
SN - 3540463631
SN - 9783540463634
VL - 4248 LNAI
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 51
EP - 58
BT - Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks - 15th International Conference, EKAW 2006, Proceedings
PB - Springer/Verlag
T2 - 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2006
Y2 - 2 October 2006 through 6 October 2006
ER -