arXiv AI

On the Limitations of Large Language Models for Conceptual Database Modeling

The article examines how Large Language Models can aid in creating Entity-Relationship diagrams from natural language requirements. It tests three LLMs with three prompting strategies—Zero-Shot, Chain of Thought, and Chain of Thought + Verifier—on scenarios of increasing complexity. Findings show that while LLMs perform adequately on simpler tasks, their reliability drops with more complex requirements, leading to inconsistencies, ambiguities, and constraint representation failures.

arXiv AI
Jul 28

ERUnderstand: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Structured ER Diagrams

arXiv:2607. 24707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) are central to conceptual database design, yet they are typically available only as rendered images rather than machine-readable schemas, limiting AI-assisted database engineering.

By Ali Ansari, Yasmin Mohammadi, Farnoush Nili, Parsa Esmaeilkhani, Longin Jan Latecki, Eduard Dragut
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 28

Model-Driven Requirements Configuration with Three-Valued Uncertainty Scoring

Context: Large Language Models (LLMs) offer natural-language flexibility for automated requirements elicitation but frequently generate structurally invalid requirements and logical inconsistencies, lacking formal correctness guarantees. Objectives: This study aims to eliminate logical inconsistencies and enforce structural conformance in LLM-generated requirements while quantifying the LLM's pre-validation decision uncertainty within a formal domain model.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 17

Relationally Guided Use Case Modeling with LLMs

The paper introduces FlowGen, a system that automates the construction of use case flows using large language models (LLMs). FlowGen extracts semantic elements via an LLM-based Semantic Information Processing module, builds a Semantic Relational Graph encoded by an enhanced R-GAT for basic flow generation (BFGen), and adds branch point prediction (BPP) and branch-conditioned alternative flow generation (AFGen). Experiments on 13 public and 7 industrial datasets show FlowGen outperforms baselines across precision, recall, F1, and AUC metrics for all three components.

By Guangyu Wang, Bangqi Li, Ji Wu, Zhijun Shao
arXiv AI
Aug 5

Evaluating LLM-Based Goal Extraction in Requirements Engineering: Prompting Strategies and Their Limitations

arXiv:2604. 22207v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Due to the textual and repetitive nature of many Requirements Engineering (RE) artefacts, Large Language Models (LLMs) have proven useful to automate their generation and processing.

By Anna Arnaudo, Riccardo Coppola, Maurizio Morisio, Flavio Giobergia, Andrea Bioddo, Angelo Bongiorno, Luca Dadone