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Introduction to Natural Language Modeling:
The Introduction to Natural Language Modeling course provides the basic theory and practical experience that will allow students to create significant information models. This one week course consists of 10 sessions. The content presented is equivalent to that of a one semester university course. Early sessions focus on viewing information problems as a set of knowledge expressible as declarative sentences. Hands-on analysis of a wide variety of real world problems allows the student to experience how the analysis procedure depends on the precise capture of knowledge held by the subject matter expert(s). A guided interactive approach permits students to both understand and use the Natural Language Modeling procedure to independently solve significant class exercises. Every session builds on skills previously obtained. The instructor repeatedly evaluates students to make sure that they are current with the presented material. Several examples will show how to use the Natural Language Modeling procedure to allow subject matter experts to validate existing models (relational or object-oriented).
The Natural Language Modeling approach is independent of any Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool. However, the analyst can directly map the Natural Language Modeling approach results to any CASE tool (relational or object oriented). Natural Language Modeling is the main focus of the course. In addition, the course provides a limited comparison of this technique with other techniques. One course session has students validating an ER (Entity Relation) model with the Natural Language Modeling procedure. Another session has students analyzing the knowledge contents of a table from a legacy application.
The public version of this course is limited to a maximum class size of 16 students. Private offerings of this course are also available.
Meeting times are 9:00 am to 4:30 pm each day
Course Schedule
Individual Registration: $2,500
Call (505) 243-1498 or e-mail (
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