Thematic Role Based Generation of UML Models from Real World Requirements

Model-driven development depends on good initial models. Creating these models by hand is a challenging task, because of complex specification documents and change requests. We propose a new internal representation based on thematic roles, especially designed for (but not limited to) requirements documents. The representation can be generated automatically out of annotated real-world specification text and can be used to generate UML models based on graph rewriting rules.