NDLI: Eliciting Relations from Natural Language Requirements Documents Based on Linguistic and Statistical Analysis

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lin Liu Tianying Li Xiaoxi Kou
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Software, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China (Lin Liu; Tianying Li; Xiaoxi Kou)
Abstract	Requirements are usually presented as Natural Language based documents. In the conceptual modeling phase, requirements are collected from different stakeholders and analyzed by requirement engineers. However, the size of the requirements documents can become very large, and the modeling process is quite time consuming and resource consuming. In order to solve this problem, much has been written on the processing of requirements documents to yield conceptual models. In this paper, we proposed an approach for identifying and extracting relations in a range of requirements documents with three steps: text analysis, entity extraction and relation mapping. If the entities in the relation are quite close to each other, for example, in the strategic dependency relationship, we will define a set of linguistic patterns used for identifying relations and propose a matching algorithm of semantic automata to extract the relation. Based on this approach, we developed a system to automatically generate the strategic dependency model of i framework and the activity model from Chinese requirements documents. A series of experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of the automated requirements analysis system. The results show that the system achieves high recall with a consistent improvement in precision, which demonstrates the applicability of our approach.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc.
Starting Page	191
Ending Page	200
File Size	463086
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479935758
ISSN	07303157
DOI	10.1109/COMPSAC.2014.27
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-07-21
Publisher Place	Sweden
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Unified modeling language Semantics Buildings Hidden Markov models Natural languages Pattern matching Syntactics activity model natural language processing requirements relation elicitation strategic dependency model
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Applications Software

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