Measuring the expressiveness of a constrained natural language: An empirical study

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 339-349

  Boyd, Stephen ^a   Zowghi, Didar ^b   Farroukh, Alia ^a  

^a ADI Limited

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

CONSTRAINED NATURAL LANGUAGES (CNL); NATURAL LANGUAGES; REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 27644481565     PISSN: 1090705X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/re.2005.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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