Automatic quality assessment of SRS text by means of a decision-tree-based text classifier

Proceedings - International Conference on Quality Software

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 209-218

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUTOMATED ASSISTANCE; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; DECISION TREE (DT); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP); PAPER ADDRESSES; QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; QUALITY INDICATORS; QUALITY MODELING; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; QUALITY SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE PROJECTS; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION (SRS); TECHNICAL PERSONNEL; TEXT CLASSIFICATION (TC); TEXT CLASSIFIERS; USER REQUIREMENTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 46449120090     PISSN: 15506002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QSIC.2007.4385497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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