A linguistic analysis engine for natural language use case description and its application to dependability analysis in industrial use cases

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 327-336

  Sinha, Avik ^a   Paradkar, Amit ^a   Kumanan, Palani ^a   Boguraev, Branimir ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Natural language; Requirements; Use cases; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; CASE DESCRIPTION; COMPUTER MODELS; CONFIGURABLE; DEPENDABILITY ANALYSIS; DEPENDABLE SYSTEMS; FORMAL TECHNIQUES; INDUSTRIAL USE; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; LINGUISTIC TECHNIQUES; NATURAL LANGUAGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; USE CASE SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SPECIFICATIONS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70450078368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2009.5270320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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