Natural language processing for requirements engineering: A systematic mapping study

L Zhao, W Alhoshan, A Ferrari, KJ Letsholo… - ACM Computing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE) is an area of
research and development that seeks to apply natural language processing (NLP) …

Research directions in requirements engineering

BHC Cheng, JM Atlee - Future of software engineering (FOSE' …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we review current requirements engineering (RE) research and identify future
research directions suggested by emerging software needs. First, we overview the state of …

From key words to key semantic domains

P Rayson - International journal of corpus linguistics, 2008 - jbe-platform.com
This paper reports the extension of the key words method for the comparison of corpora.
Using automatic tagging software that assigns part-of-speech and semantic field (domain) …

Social Modeling and i*

ES Yu - … modeling: Foundations and applications: Essays in …, 2009 - Springer
Many different types of models are used in various scientific and engineering fields,
reflecting the subject matter and the kinds of understanding that is sought in each field …

Ambiguity detection: Towards a tool explaining ambiguity sources

B Gleich, O Creighton, L Kof - … , REFSQ 2010, Essen, Germany, June 30 …, 2010 - Springer
Abstract [Context and motivation] Natural language is the main representation means of
industrial requirements documents, which implies that requirements documents are …

Identifying nocuous ambiguities in natural language requirements

F Chantree, B Nuseibeh, A De Roeck… - 14th IEEE International …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel technique that automatically alerts authors of requirements to the
presence of potentially dangerous ambiguities. We first establish the notion of nocuous …

Empirical principles and an industrial case study in retrieving equivalent requirements via natural language processing techniques

D Falessi, G Cantone, G Canfora - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Though very important in software engineering, linking artifacts of the same type (clone
detection) or different types (traceability recovery) is extremely tedious, error-prone, and …

Detecting, classifying, and tracing non-functional software requirements

A Mahmoud, G Williams - Requirements Engineering, 2016 - Springer
In this paper, we describe a novel unsupervised approach for detecting, classifying, and
tracing non-functional software requirements (NFRs). The proposed approach exploits the …

An exploratory study of information retrieval techniques in domain analysis

V Alves, C Schwanninger, L Barbosa… - 2008 12th …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Domain analysis involves not only looking at standard requirements documents (eg, use
case specifications) but also at customer information packs, market analyses, etc. Looking …

Semantics-based composition for aspect-oriented requirements engineering

R Chitchyan, A Rashid, P Rayson… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we discuss the limitations of the current syntactic composition mechanisms in
aspect-oriented requirements engineering (AORE). We highlight that such composition …