A controlled natural language approach for integrating requirements and model-driven engineering

4th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2009, Includes SEDES 2009: Simposio para Estudantes de Doutoramento em Engenharia de Software

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 518-523

  Ferreira, David De Almeida ^a   Silva, Alberto Rodrigues Da ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Software engineering tools and methods; Software requirements

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; CONTROLLED NATURAL LANGUAGE; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; END-USERS; ERROR PRONES; MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; REQUIREMENTS MODELS; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; SOCIO-TECHNICAL APPROACH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TOOLS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS; TARGET SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ENGINEERING; INTEGRATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 70749135971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSEA.2009.81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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