Translating Platform-independent Code into Natural Language Texts

Håkan Burden, Rogardt Heldal

2013

Abstract

Understanding software artifacts is not only time-consuming, without the proper training and experience it can be impossible. From a model-driven perspective there are two benefits from translating platform-independent models into natural language texts: First, the non-functional properties of the solution have already been omitted meaning that the translations focus on describing the functional behaviour of the system. Second, the platform-independent models are reusable across platforms and so are the translations generated from them. As a proof-of-concept a platform-independent Action language is translated into natural language texts through the framework of model transformations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Burden H. and Heldal R. (2013). Translating Platform-independent Code into Natural Language Texts . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-8565-42-6, pages 281-290. DOI: 10.5220/0004312102810290

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward13,
author={Håkan Burden and Rogardt Heldal},
title={Translating Platform-independent Code into Natural Language Texts},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2013},
pages={281-290},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004312102810290},
isbn={978-989-8565-42-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Translating Platform-independent Code into Natural Language Texts
SN - 978-989-8565-42-6
AU - Burden H.
AU - Heldal R.
PY - 2013
SP - 281
EP - 290
DO - 10.5220/0004312102810290