Using pre-requirements tracing to investigate requirements based on tacit knowledge

ICSOFT 2006 - 1st International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 139-144

  Stone, Andrew ^a   Sawyer, Pete ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Latent Semantic Analysis; Natural language processing; Requirements; Tacit knowledge; Tracing

Indexed keywords

LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; SOURCE MATERIAL; TACIT KNOWLEDGE; TIME-CONSUMING PROCESS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 44649165873     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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