A Text Mining Approach for Mapping OCL Navigation Expressions

One problem of exploiting information captured by an OO system model such as class models is mapping user queries on the model. This is particularly due to the informal character of the user queries. This paper presents an approach based on text mining for identifying and interpreting user queries. This would enable a matching between the interpreted user query and the corresponding entities specified by the system model. Therefore, navigation expressions in OCL can be derived from the system model that have a formal character and are able to answer the user questions against the class model.