Methods and systems for translating natural language requirements to a semantic modeling language statement

A system, computer-readable medium, and a method including receiving a textual representation of a natural language expression for a system requirement; analyzing, by the processor, the textual representation of the natural language expression to determine a natural language object, the natural language object including the textual representation of the natural language expression and syntactic attributes derived therefrom; traversing, by the processor, a grammar graph representation of a modeling language to determine a partial translation of the natural language object, the partial translation including at least one ontology concept placeholder; determining, by the processor, ontology concepts corresponding to the at least one ontology concept placeholder to complete a translation of the textual representation of the natural language expression; and generating a record of the completed translation.