A rule-based natural language technique for requirements discovery and classification in open-source software development projects

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Vlas, Radu ^a   Robinson, William N ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; ERROR PRONES; LARGE PROJECT; MANUAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; REQUIREMENTS DISCOVERY; RULE BASED;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79952934871     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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