Fact-oriented conceptual modeling: survey
面向事实的概念建模方法研究综述

Fact-oriented information modeling is a kind of conceptual modeling, which depends on the fully natural language communication between domain experts and information analysts, to capture and represent domain knowledge. Modeling me-thod will influence the conceptual capture process and the quality of conceptual model, the reason is that the syntax structure of the modeling language is different from the natural language, modelers need do some language translate works that cause some information loss. This paper provided a brief history of fact-oriented modeling; reviewed the current state of methodology, tools and engineering practice.