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{{Short description|Artificial languageNotation used to expressexpressing information under a rule set}}

A '''modeling language''' is anya [[artificialnotation language]]for that can be used to expressexpressing [[data]], [[information]] or [[knowledge]] or [[system]]s in a [[structure]] that is defined by a consistent set of rules. The rules are used for interpretation of the meaning of components in the structure of a [[programming language]].

A modeling language can be graphical or textual.<ref>{{Cite conference |last1=He |first1=Xiao |last2=Ma |first2=Zhiyi |last3=Shao |first3=Weizhong |last4=Li |first4=Ge |title=31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference - Vol. 1- (COMPSAC 2007) |date=July 2007 |chapter=A metamodel for the notation of graphical modeling languages |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4291008 |volume=1 |pages=219–224 |doi=10.1109/COMPSAC.2007.27|isbn=978-0-7695-2870-0 |citeseerx=10.1.1.526.5321 }}</ref> A graphical modeling language uses a [[diagramming technique]] with named symbols that represent concepts and lines that connect the symbols and represent relationships and various other graphical notation to represent constraints. A textual modeling language may use standardized keywords accompanied by parameters or natural language terms and phrases to make computer-interpretable expressions. An example of a graphical modeling language and a corresponding textual modeling language is [[EXPRESS (data modeling language)|EXPRESS]].