Innovations in natural language document processing for requirements engineering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5320 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 125-146

  Berzins, Valdis ^a   Martell, Craig ^a   Luqi, ^a   Adams, Paige ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Domain specific methods; Gaps; Natural language; Requirements

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC METHODS; GAPS; NATURAL LANGUAGE; REQUIREMENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INNOVATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 58449096201     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89778-1_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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