Ambiguity in natural language requirements documents

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

Volumn 5320 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-7

  Berry, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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NATURAL LANGUAGES; SOURCE MATERIALS;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 58449123125     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89778-1_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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