Extracting formal specifications from natural language regulatory documents
Nikhil Dinesh, Aravind K. Joshi, Inseop Lee, Bonnie Webber · 2006
bonnie @ inf. ed. ac. uk Formal verification techniques provide a way to determine whether regulatory documents are consistent and whether implementations conform to them. To apply these techniques a formal description of the regulation needs to be extracted. We present a framework, under which NLP techniques can be brought to bear, to aid a requirements engineer in extracting the formal description. 1