Natural Language Processing: An Inevitable Step in Requirements Engineering

A. Egemen Yilmaz
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A. Egemen Yilmaz: Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE), 2014, vol. 4, issue 1, 68-83

Abstract: Requirement analysis is the very first and crucial step in the software development processes. On the other hand, as previously addressed by other researchers, it is the Achilles' heel of the whole process since the requirements lie on the problem space, whereas other software artifacts are on the solution space. Stating the requirements in a clear manner eases the following steps in the process as well as reducing the number of potential errors. In this paper, techniques for the improvement of the requirements expressed in the natural language are revisited. These techniques try to check the requirement quality attributes via lexical and syntactic analysis methods sometimes with generic, and sometimes domain and application specific knowledge bases.

Date: 2014
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