Shallow knowledge as an aid to deep understanding in early phase requirements engineering

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 969-981

  Sawyer, Pete ^a,b   Rayson, Paul ^a,b   Cosh, Ken ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c PAYAP UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Document analysis; Elicitation methods; Linguistic processing; Specification; Tools

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; ELICITATION METHODS; LANGUAGE ENGINEERING; LINGUISTIC PROCESSING;

DATA REDUCTION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 33846161179     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.129     Document Type: Article

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