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Initial Results from a Study on Personal Semantics of Conceptual Modeling Languages

  • Dirk van der Linden
  • , K. Gaaloul
  • , W. Molnar

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    Abstract

    In this paper we present the initial results from our longitudinal study into the personal semantics of common meta-concepts used in conceptual modeling. People have an implicit understanding of many of the meta-concepts used for modeling purposes, although these are rarely ever made explicit. We argue that a proper understanding of how modelers personally interpret the meta-concepts they use in nearly all of their (domain) models can aid in several things, e.g. explicating a modeler's (proto)typical concept usage, finding communities that share a conceptual understanding and matching individual modelers to each other. Our initial results include the analysis of data resulting from our study so far and a discussion what hypotheses they support.
    Original languageUndefined/Unknown
    Title of host publicationNatural Language Processing and Information Systems
    EditorsG Bouma, A. Ittoo, E. Métias, H. Wortmann
    PublisherSpringer-Verlag Berlin
    Pages360-365
    Number of pages6
    Volume7337
    ISBN (Print)ISBN-13: 9783642311772
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    PublisherSpringer, Berlin, Germany

    Bibliographical note

    10.1007/978-3-642-31178-9_48

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