Paper Info
Title
An Approach to Ambiguity Analysis in Safety-Related Standards
Abstract
Standards for systems and software lifecycle processes have become rather popular in the last decade. Being expressed in natural language, their requirements, or clauses, are exposed to the risk of ambiguity, vagueness and subjectivity, even when safety of people and environment is the Standard’s main concern. The paper addresses some issues of this problem and presents an experimental approach to the determination and evaluation of a set of properties of the clauses, which capture the notion of the quality of their expressions. The approach adopts a rather intuitive quality model for the English language and includes the use of a tool for sentence processing. Results of a descriptive analysis of some well-known, safety-related Standards for different software application domains are shown and discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/QUATIC.2010.83
QUATIC
Keywords
Field
DocType
ambiguity analysis,main concern,different software application domain,descriptive analysis,safety-related standards,intuitive quality model,experimental approach,software lifecycle process,english language,natural language,last decade,standardization,natural languages,correlation,analysis of variance,dictionaries
Data science,Vagueness,Systems engineering,Sentence processing,Software engineering,Expression (mathematics),Computer science,Software,Natural language,Software development process,Standardization,Ambiguity
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.52
5
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Isabella Biscoglio163.06
Alessandro Coco231.20
Mario Fusani37213.69
Stefania Gnesi41475120.93
Gianluca Trentanni5687.35