Generating formal system models from natural language descriptions

Abstract

The initial starting point of each design process usually is given by means of a textual specification provided in a natural language. However, the process of creating an accurate and complete formal representation has always been a bottleneck in the design. Manually generating such a formal description from the specification is expensive, requires significant time, and a large number of well-trained design and verification engineers. Usually, only humans with expert design knowledge are assumed to have the ability to properly interpret the respective specification documents.