Title: Automated Business Process Discovery from Unstructured Natural-Language Documents
Abstract: Understanding the processes followed by organizations is important to ensure business outcomes are achieved in an optimal, efficient and compliant manner. Process mining techniques rely on the existence of structured event logs captured by process management systems. These systems are not always employed and may not capture all process steps, leaving out those that occur through emails and chat software or edits to documents and knowledge-management systems. Here we present an algorithm for the automated extraction of processes from unstructured natural-language documents. Action and topic analysis is used to generate an event log, from which process models are mined using standard techniques. We show the algorithm is capable of generating consistent software-development processes from an Apache Camel email dataset.
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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