Logic-based verification of technical documentation
Christian Schönberg, Franz Weitl, Mirjana Jakšić, Burkhard Freitag · 2009
Checking the content coherence of digital documents is the purpose of the Verdikt system which can be applied to different domains and document types including technical documentation, e-learning documents, and web pages. An expressive temporal description logic allows for the specification of content consistency criteria along document paths. Whether the document conforms to the specification can then be verified by applying a model checker. In case of specification violations, the model checker provides counterexamples, locating errors in the document precisely. Based on a sample technical documentation in the form of a web document, the general verification process and its effectiveness, efficiency, and usability are demonstrated.