Speeding up requirements management in a product software company: Linking customer wishes to product requirements through linguistic engineering

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 283-294

  Natt Och Dag, Johan ^a   Gervasi, Vincenzo ^b   Brinkkemper, Sjaak ^c   Regnell, Björn ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; LINGUISTIC ENGINEERING; REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; LINGUISTICS; MARKETING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 17044409177     PISSN: 1090705X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRE.2004.1335685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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