Higher quality requirements specifications through natural language patterns

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Software- Science, Technology and Engineering, SwSTE 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 80-90

  Denger, C ^a   Berry, D M ^b   Kamsties, E ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer industry; Computer science; Costs; Delay; Embedded system; Natural languages; Proposals; Software engineering; Software systems; Systems engineering and theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; DEFECTS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER INDUSTRY; DELAY; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROPOSALS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND THEORIES;

COST ENGINEERING;

EID: 84947587611     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SWSTE.2003.1245428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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