How to use linguistic instruments for object-oriented analysis

One of the limitations of the application of object-oriented approaches to software development is the object-oriented analysis process's immaturity. This article proposes an approach that is based on using linguistic informa tion from informal specifications to be applied during this process. The pr oposed method helps analyze this information semantically and syntactically and employs a semiformal procedure to extract an object-oriented system's components from such analysis.