T-GOWler: Discovering Generalized Process Models Within Texts.
Journal:
Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology
Published Date:
Aug 1, 2017
Abstract
Contemporary workflow management systems are driven by explicit process models specifying the interdependencies between tasks. Creating these models is a challenging and time-consuming task. Existing approaches to mining concrete workflows into models tackle design aspects related to the diverging abstraction levels of the tasks. Concrete workflow logs represent tasks and cases of concrete events-partially or totally ordered-grounding hidden multilevel (abstract) semantics and contexts. Relevant generalized events could be rediscovered within these processes. We propose, in this article, an ontology-based workflow mining system to generate patterns from sequences of events that are themselves extracted from texts. Our system T-GOWler (Generalized Ontology-based WorkfLow minER within Texts) is based on two ontology-based modules: a workflow extractor and a pattern miner. To this end, it uses two different ontologies: a domain one (to support workflow extraction from texts) and a processual one (to mine generalized patterns from extracted workflows).