Linguistically Based Requirements Engineering - The NIBA Project
G. Fliedl, C. Kop, Heinrich C. Mayr, Willi Mayerthaler, Christian Winkler, Christian Kop, Wilhelm Mayerthaler, Christian Winkler, Heinrich C. Mayr, Günther Fliedl · 1999
Introduction The analysis of requirement specifications in the context of information systems development is of growing importance in the field of computational linguistics. Usually, the development of an information system (or some part of it) starts with an requirements elicitation, collection and analysis phase that results in a set of natural language requirements specifications. These then serve as a source for the phase of conceptual design where a semantic model of the given universe of discourse is established using modeling and representation concepts like UML [1] or former approaches like OMT [6] or even the classical Entity-Relationship Model (or one of its numerous extensions). These approaches mainly are thought for enhancing the validation of the collected requirements as well as for providing a more formal basis for the subsequent system design and realization steps. Indeed, they form a considerable help for the designer, however they are no aid in collecting a