The importance of requirements, which in practice often means natural language
requirements, for a successful software project cannot be underestimated. Although …

Testing against natural language requirements is the standard approach for system and
acceptance testing. This test is often performed by an independent test organization …

The potential role of natural language processing in the requirements engineering process
has been overstated in the past, possibly due to fundamental misunderstandings of the …

Open source projects do have requirements; they are, however, mostly informal, text
descriptions found in requests, forums, and other correspondence. Understanding of such …

Ambiguity in requirement specifications causes numerous problems; for example in defining
customer/supplier contracts, ensuring the integrity of safety-critical systems, and analysing …

One of the main tasks of requirements engineering (RE) is the creation of a requirements
document that precisely, consistently, and completely describes the functional and non …

Natural language (NL) requirements are widely used in the software industry, at least as the
first level of description of a system. Unfortunately they are often prone to errors and this is …

Requirements Engineering (RE) is concerned with the gathering, analyzing, specifying and
validating of user requirements that are documented mostly in natural language. The artifact …

This paper presents an approach for reducing the problem of ambiguity and imprecision in
natural language requirements specifications with the use of language quality patterns and …

Nowadays requirements are mostly specified in unrestricted natural language so that each
stakeholder understands them. To ensure high quality and to avoid misunderstandings, the …