EDUCE Patterns Overview

Some of the EDUCE language patterns focus on business value, vision, and mission, while other patterns focus on conceptual models. The core EDUCE patterns focus on meaning preserving statement simplification and the organization of an emergent Domain Vocabulary. The following table provides quick links to each of these patterns.

Language Pattern		Intended Result (Intent)
Conceptual Commonality		a common understanding shared by all solution stakeholders
Domain Vocabulary		a complete listing of domain terms and their inter-relationships
Stable Concept		a domain concept revealed through its relationships
Policy Statement		a business context, a quality concern, and end(s) to be achieved
Goal Statement		a business goal and metrics to measure and detect success
Quality Description		a quality concern, its stakeholders, and metrics
Quantity Description		a measurement, its context, source, and instrumentation
Problem Description		a business problem to be solved (and its problem frames)
Usage Description		describes users and their interests, activities, and objectives
Nuclear Sentence		a simplified sentence with a standard (normal) format
Isolated Subject		a separate sentence for each subject
Isolated Verb		a separate clause for each verb
Complete Predicate		a transitive verb with all its related objects (actants)
Limiting Adjective		indicates the cardinality of a relationship or event
Descriptive Adjective		a named condition, state, constraint, or result
Possession Discovery		a possessive verb discovered from genitive replacement
Clause Summary		a summary name derived from an entire clause
Condition Description		a summary name derived from a comparative clause
Joined Clauses		a pair of clauses that only make sense together
Normal Form		a standard simple grammar for sentences and clauses
Normal Person		a third person subject
Normal Number		a singular subject and corresponding verb
Normal Voice		a verb with active voice
Normal Tense		a verb with present tense (if an action, past if a condition)
Normal Mood		a verb with indicative (or potential) mood
Normal Polarity		a verb with affirmative polarity
Normal Pronoun		an indefinite pronoun for a member of a collection
Normal Article		an indefinite article (unless a true singleton)