The authors also would like to express their gratitude to Dr. A. Foster (employee of Bayer Animal Health) for linguistic check and valuable critical discussion.
We would also like to thank Prof. Riitta Ahonen for initial ideas, Dr. Lana Williams for linguistic check and Ms. Seija Oinonen and MSc Kimmo Ronkainen for technical help.
While many model properties can already be checked automatically, there is a notable gap of techniques for checking linguistic aspects such as naming conventions of process model elements.
Tools based on linguistic analysis for checking author style (such as TesLA's Forensic Analysis instrument) received particular attention and were widely welcomed.
In addition to checking the linguistic accuracy of their written texts, they monitored their witting performance and evaluated their comprehension of information presented in instruction and in the graph to refine what they have written and identify new idea in order to represent an organized and accurate written report through both rewriting and rereading.
We thank Mr. Jonathan Gips, Mr. Philip Liang, Mr. Aaron Valade, Mr. Ryan Aylward, Dr. York Liao, and the late William J Mitchell from General Sensing Limited, for their expert technical support and analysis of data, and especially Mr. Jonathan Gips for checking the linguistic style of the manuscript.
The output linguistic variables "normal", "check" and "attention" were defined, which determine further measures for improvement of process quality.
During a period of several weeks to up to three months, Japanese QA teams look for bugs while Western QA teams check linguistic issues.
However, some portions of the Hindi transcripts were translated separately, by two project assistants, and some were back translated to check linguistic reliability and correctness in translation.
The development of authorship checking based on computational linguistic approaches was an area of particular interest.
Upon approval from the experts, the revised test version was harmonized among the three languages and checked for linguistic equivalence by a linguistic expert.
