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Ontology Based Requirements Analysis: Lightweight Semantic Processing Approach

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Haruhiko Kaiya,

Motoshi SaekiAuthors Info & Claims

QSIC '05: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Quality Software

Pages 223 - 230

https://doi.org/10.1109/QSIC.2005.46

Published: 19 September 2005 Publication History

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We propose a software requirements analysis method based on domain ontology technique, where we can establish a mapping between a software requirements specification and the domain ontology that represents semantic components. Our ontology system consists of a thesaurus and inference rules and the thesaurus part comprises domain specific concepts and relationships suitable for semantic processing. It allows requirements engineers to analyze a requirements specification with respect to the semantics of the application domain. More concretely, we demonstrate following three kinds of semantic processing through a case study, (1) detecting incompleteness and inconsistency included in a requirements specification, (2) measuring the quality of a specification with respect to its meaning and (3) predicting requirements changes based on semantic analysis on a change history.

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