Collecting Activities and States in German Business Process Models

In this paper we describe a publicly available dataset containing 6,266 verb phrases which can be used to express activities and states in business process models in German language. This addresses the problem that often activities or states in labels of business process models are not expressed by a single verb but rather by a multiword expression. Verb phrases that are considered semantically equivalent have been grouped into synsets. This helps to identify the actual meaning of a textual label. The dataset has been compiled from a comprehensive analysis of 6,711 business process models with German labels and a study of already available collections of multiword expressions in the literature. The resource can be used for algorithms that analyze business process models with respect to the semantics of their labels.