Paper Info
Title
A linguistic analysis engine for natural language use case description and its application to dependability analysis in industrial use cases
Abstract
We present 1) a novel linguistic engine made of configurable linguistic components for understanding natural language use case specification; and 2) results of the first of a kind large scale experiment of application of linguistic techniques to industrial use cases. Requirement defects are well known to have adverse effects on dependability of software systems. While formal techniques are often cited as a remedy for specification errors, natural language remains the predominant mode for specifying requirements. Therefore, for dependable system development, a natural language processing technique is required that can translate natural language textual requirements into validation ready computer models. In this paper, we present the implementation details of such a technique and the results of applying a prototype implementation of our technique to 80 industrial and academic use case descriptions. We report on the accuracy and effectiveness of our technique. The results of our experiment are very encouraging.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/DSN.2009.5270320
DSN
Keywords
Field
DocType
natural language processing,production engineering computing,search engines,formal techniques,industrial use cases,linguistic analysis engine,natural language processing technique,natural language textual requirements,natural language use case description,Automation,Natural language,Requirements,Use Cases,Validation
Specification language,Dependability,Use case,Programming language,Computer science,Asynchronous Transfer Mode,Automation,Software system,Natural language,Artificial neural network
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-0889
13
0.76
References 
Authors
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Avik Sinha11247.68
Amit M. Paradkar211210.08
Palani Kumanan3131.10
Branimir Boguraev4549108.99