Toward a text classification system for the quality assessment of software requirements written in natural language

SOQUA'07: Fourth International Workshop on Software Quality Assurance - In conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE Joint Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 39-45

  Ormandjieva, Olga ^a   Hussain, Ishrar ^a   Kosseim, Leila ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human annotation; Natural language processing; Quality assessment; Requirements engineering; Text classification techniques

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TEXT PROCESSING;

HUMAN ANNOTATION; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION (SRS); TEXT CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 41149126094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1295074.1295082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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