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面向需求工程的自然语言处理(NLP):系统映射研究

Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Requirements Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study

Liping Zhao, Waad Alhoshan, Alessio Ferrari, Keletso J. Letsholo, Muideen A. Ajagbe, Erol-Valeriu Chioasca, Riza T. Batista-Navarro

摘要:

自然语言处理支持的需求工程是一个研究和开发领域,旨在将NLP技术,工具和资源应用于各种需求文档或工件,以支持在各个RE阶段执行的一系列语言分析任务。这些任务包括检测语言问题,识别关键领域概念和建立需求之间的可追溯性链接。本文调查了NLP 4 RE研究的景观,以了解最新的技术水平,并确定开放的问题。系统映射研究方法是用来进行这项调查,其中确定了404个相关的主要研究,并审查他们根据五个研究问题,横跨五个方面的NLP 4 RE研究,涉及文献的状态,实证研究的状态,研究重点,实践的状态,和使用的NLP技术。结果如下:1)NLP 4 RE是RE中一个活跃且蓬勃发展的研究领域,已积累了大量出版物并引起了不同社区的广泛关注; 2)大多数NLP 4 RE研究都是仅使用实验室实验或示例应用进行评估的解决方案建议; 3)大多数研究都集中在分析阶段,以检测为中心的语言分析任务,以需求规格说明为共同处理的文档类型; 4)已经提出了130种新工具来支持一系列语言分析任务,但很少有证据表明长期采用,尽管已经发布了一些工业应用; 5)从所选研究中提取了140种自然语言处理技术、66种自然语言处理工具和25种自然语言处理资源。

英文摘要:

Natural language processing supported requirements engineering is an area of research and development that seeks to apply NLP techniques, tools and resources to a variety of requirements documents or artifacts to support a range of linguistic analysis tasks performed at various RE phases. Such tasks include detecting language issues, identifying key domain concepts and establishing traceability links between requirements. This article surveys the landscape of NLP4RE research to understand the state of the art and identify open problems. The systematic mapping study approach is used to conduct this survey, which identified 404 relevant primary studies and reviewed them according to five research questions, cutting across five aspects of NLP4RE research, concerning the state of the literature, the state of empirical research, the research focus, the state of the practice, and the NLP technologies used. Results: 1) NLP4RE is an active and thriving research area in RE that has amassed a large number of publications and attracted widespread attention from diverse communities; 2) most NLP4RE studies are solution proposals having only been evaluated using a laboratory experiment or an example application; 3) most studies have focused on the analysis phase, with detection as their central linguistic analysis task and requirements specification as their commonly processed document type; 4) 130 new tools have been proposed to support a range of linguistic analysis tasks, but there is little evidence of adoption in the long term, although some industrial applications have been published; 5) 140 NLP techniques, 66 NLP tools and 25 NLP resources are extracted from the selected studies.

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