Extracting Business Process Models Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques

This Doctoral Consortium paper discusses how NLP can be applied in the domain of BPM in order to automatically generate business process models from existing documentation within the organization. The main idea is that from the syntactic and grammatical structure of a sentence, the components of a business process model can be derived (i.e. activities, resources, tasks, patterns). The result would be a business process model depicted using BPMN - a dedicated business process modeling technique

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