A comprehensive characterization of NLP techniques for identifying equivalent requirements

ESEM 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Falessi, Davide ^a,b   Cantone, Giovanni ^b   Canfora, Gerardo ^c  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

case study; natural language processing; requirements

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE DOMAIN; CASE STUDY; CLONE DETECTION; ERROR PRONES; ITALIAN COMPANIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REQUIREMENTS;

CLONING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERROR DETECTION; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78149235211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1852786.1852810     Document Type: Conference Paper

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