Automated handling of anaphoric ambiguity in requirements: a multi-solution study

S Ezzini, S Abualhaija, C Arora… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Ambiguity is a pervasive issue in natural-language requirements. A common source of
ambiguity in requirements is when a pronoun is anaphoric. In requirements engineering …

Addressing the challenges of requirements ambiguity: A review of empirical literature

M Bano - 2015 IEEE Fifth International Workshop on Empirical …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ambiguity in natural language requirements has long been recognized as an inevitable
challenge in requirements engineering (RE). Various initiatives have been taken by RE …

Ambiguity and tacit knowledge in requirements elicitation interviews

A Ferrari, P Spoletini, S Gnesi - Requirements Engineering, 2016 - Springer
Interviews are the most common and effective means to perform requirements elicitation and
support knowledge transfer between a customer and a requirements analyst. Ambiguity in …

Requirements for tools for ambiguity identification and measurement in natural language requirements specifications

N Kiyavitskaya, N Zeni, L Mich, DM Berry - Requirements engineering, 2008 - Springer
This paper proposes a two-step approach to identifying ambiguities in natural language (NL)
requirements specifications (RSs). In the first step, a tool would apply a set of ambiguity …

Detecting requirements defects with NLP patterns: an industrial experience in the railway domain

A Ferrari, G Gori, B Rosadini, I Trotta… - Empirical Software …, 2018 - Springer
In the railway safety-critical domain requirements documents have to abide to strict quality
criteria. Rule-based natural language processing (NLP) techniques have been developed to …

A theory of vagueness and privacy risk perception

J Bhatia, TD Breaux, JR Reidenberg… - 2016 IEEE 24th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ambiguity arises in requirements when a statement is unintentionally or otherwise
incomplete, missing information, or when a word or phrase has more than one possible …

Automatic detection and resolution of lexical ambiguity in process models

F Pittke, H Leopold, J Mendling - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
System-related engineering tasks are often conducted using process models. In this context,
it is essential that these models do not contain structural or terminological inconsistencies …

Requirements in engineering projects

JM Fernandes, RJ Machado - 2016 - Springer
Nowadays, software and systems engineers are facing many challenges when they develop
new systems. Society is expecting those systems to have high quality, provide exciting …

Mining privacy goals from privacy policies using hybridized task recomposition

J Bhatia, TD Breaux, F Schaub - ACM Transactions on Software …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Privacy policies describe high-level goals for corporate data practices; regulators require
industries to make available conspicuous, accurate privacy policies to their customers …

Predicting requirement change propagation through investigation of physical and functional domains

PH Hein, N Voris, B Morkos - Research in Engineering Design, 2018 - Springer
Requirements play a critical role in the design process and are important to the project's
success. The design process is iterative, and requirements are constantly changed and …