Recognizing and Splitting Conditional Sentences for Automation of Business Processes Management
This work addresses the specific challenge of modeling business processes from text for BPM practitioners, representing an incremental improvement with a new dataset and models.
The paper tackles the problem of automating business process management by recognizing and splitting conditional sentences from technical documents, achieving F1 scores of 83.82, 87.84, and 85.75 for extracting Condition, Action, and Consequence clauses using exact match.
Business Process Management (BPM) is the discipline which is responsible for management of discovering, analyzing, redesigning, monitoring, and controlling business processes. One of the most crucial tasks of BPM is discovering and modelling business processes from text documents. In this paper, we present our system that resolves an end-to-end problem consisting of 1) recognizing conditional sentences from technical documents, 2) finding boundaries to extract conditional and resultant clauses from each conditional sentence, and 3) categorizing resultant clause as Action or Consequence which later helps to generate new steps in our business process model automatically. We created a new dataset and three models solve this problem. Our best model achieved very promising results of 83.82, 87.84, and 85.75 for Precision, Recall, and F1, respectively, for extracting Condition, Action, and Consequence clauses using Exact Match metric.