Natural Language Requirements Processing: A 4D Vision

The future evolution of the application of natural language processing technologies in requirements engineering can be viewed from four dimensions: discipline, dynamism, domain knowledge, and datasets.

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 34; no. 6; pp. 28 - 35
Main Authors Ferrari, Alessio, Dell'Orletta, Felice, Esuli, Andrea, Gervasi, Vincenzo, Gnesi, Stefania
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.11.2017
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Artificial intelligence
Computer science
Natural language
Natural language processing
NLP
Requirements engineering
requirements specification
Software development
software engineering
Terminology
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ISSN0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI10.1109/MS.2017.4121207

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Abstract The future evolution of the application of natural language processing technologies in requirements engineering can be viewed from four dimensions: discipline, dynamism, domain knowledge, and datasets.
AbstractList The future evolution of the application of natural language processing technologies in requirements engineering can be viewed from four dimensions: discipline, dynamism, domain knowledge, and datasets.
Natural language processing (NLP) and requirements engineering (RE) have had a long relationship, yet their combined use isn’t well established in industrial practice. This situation should soon change. The future evolution of the application of NLP technologies in RE can be viewed from four dimensions: discipline, dynamism, domain knowledge, and datasets.
Author Dell'Orletta, Felice
Esuli, Andrea
Ferrari, Alessio
Gnesi, Stefania
Gervasi, Vincenzo
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