Analyzing the gap between workflows and their natural language descriptions

Paul Groth, Yolanda Gil

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Abstract

Scientists increasingly use workflows to represent and share their computational experiments. Because of their declarative nature, focus on pre-existing component composition and the availability of visual editors, workflows provide a valuable start for creating user-friendly environments for end user scientists. However, there is still work to be done to create even more user-friendly environments. In this paper, we aim to identify key constructs that intelligent workflow systems could support to allow for more natural workflow representations. These constructs are identified through a comparison of bioinformatics workflows and their associated natural language descriptions obtained from the virtual research environment myExperiment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2009 IEEE Congress on Services, SERVICES 2009
Pages299-305
Number of pages7
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
EventSERVICES 2009 - 5th 2009 World Congress on Services - Bangalore, India
Duration: Sep 21 2009Sep 25 2009

Publication series

NameSERVICES 2009 - 5th 2009 World Congress on Services
NumberPART 1

Conference

ConferenceSERVICES 2009 - 5th 2009 World Congress on Services
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityBangalore
Period09/21/0909/25/09

Keywords

  • Advice
  • MyExperiment
  • Scientific workflows
  • Textual analysis
  • Workflow constructs

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