The proper representation of a Business process is important for its
execution and understanding. BPMN has been used as the standard notation
for business process models, however domain specialists, which are experts in
the business, do not have necessarily the modeling skills to easily read a business
process model. It is easier for them to read in natural language. In this
work, we propose a language-independent framework, instantiated using Java
standard technology, for generating automatically natural language texts from
business process models. A case study was conducted to evaluate the quality of
the generated text. We found empirical support that the textual work instructions
can be considered equivalent, in terms of knowledge representation, to process
models represented in BPMN. Regarding the framework output quality (textual
descriptions) 86% of the subjects claims that it vary from excellent to good.
Facilitating the Compliance of Process Models with Critical System Engineering Standards using Natural Language Processing
