Identifying nocuous ambiguities in natural language requirements

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 56-65

  Chantree, Francis ^a   Nuseibeh, Bashar ^a   De Roeck, Anne ^a   Willis, Alistair ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

COORDINATION AMBIGUITIES; HUMAN JUDGEMENTS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 41149177720     PISSN: 1090705X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2006.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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