Improving the quality of knowledge representation for requirements engineering through natural language requirements patterns

Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 102-107

  Ang, Aries ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Knowledge representation; Language patterns and software engineering; Modelling language; Object oriented; Requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

LANGUAGE PATTERNS; NATURAL LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; OBJECT ORIENTED; OBJECT-ORIENTED KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84959038106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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