Lexicon Construction for Information Systems
Míriam Sayão, Gustavo Robichez de Carvalho · INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL · 2007
"Requirements engineering activities may include reading documents which impact in some way the system beingdeveloped. Examples of such documents are organization standards, legislation, interview summaries, and alsorequirements documents. During that process, one of the most important tasks is the construction of a lexicon for theapplication, because the symbols of the domain are registered on it. The lexicon is a basis to promote understandingamong customers, users and software professionals. In this article we propose a strategy for automatic symbolsidentification to compose an application lexicon, focusing on relevant actors and resources for the elicitationprocess. The proposed strategy evaluates documents handled in the requirements engineering process. Thosedocuments are written in natural language, and the strategy aims to extract expressions that identify actors andresources to compose a lexicon for the application. Results from two case studies illustrate the application of ourstrategy"