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Requirements elicitation is an important phase of any software project: the errors in requirements are more expensive to fix than the errors introduced at later stages of software life cycle. Nevertheless, many projects do not devote…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Maria Naumcheva

Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Requirements Engineering (RE) (NLP4RE) seeks to apply NLP tools, techniques, and resources to the RE process to increase the quality of the requirements. There is little research involving the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Krishna Ronanki , Christian Berger , Jennifer Horkoff

Across the dynamic business landscape today, enterprises face an ever-increasing range of challenges. These include the constantly evolving regulatory environment, the growing demand for personalization within software applications, and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Smita Ghaisas , Anmol Singhal

Requirements are inherently interconnected through various types of dependencies. Identifying these dependencies is essential, as they underpin critical decisions and influence a range of activities throughout software development. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ikram Darif , Feifei Niu , Manel Abdellatif , Lionel C. Briand , Ramesh S. , Arun Adiththan

Dynamic programming (DP) is a fundamental method in operations research, but formulating DP models has traditionally required expert knowledge of both the problem context and DP techniques. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer the potential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Chenyu Zhou , Jingyuan Yang , Linwei Xin , Yitian Chen , Ziyan He , Dongdong Ge

Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools support requirements engineering (RE) tasks like requirements elicitation, classification, and validation. However, they are often developed from scratch despite functional overlaps, and abandoned…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Julian Frattini , Quim Motger

Large Language Models (LLMs) depend on high-quality, domain-specific natural language datasets. This dependency is particularly pronounced in Requirements Engineering (RE), where core activities rely on textual artifacts such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Quim Motger , Carlota Catot , Xavier Franch

State-of-the-art deep learning methods achieve human-like performance on many tasks, but make errors nevertheless. Characterizing these errors in easily interpretable terms gives insight into whether a classifier is prone to making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Michael Hedderich , Jonas Fischer , Dietrich Klakow , Jilles Vreeken

Systems that use Machine Learning (ML) have become commonplace for companies that want to improve their products and processes. Literature suggests that Requirements Engineering (RE) can help address many problems when engineering…

Deep Learning (DL) is being used nowadays in many traditional Software Engineering (SE) problems and tasks. However, since the renaissance of DL techniques is still very recent, we lack works that summarize and condense the most recent and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Fabio Ferreira , Luciana Lourdes Silva , Marco Tulio Valente

The requirements engineering process is a crucial stage of the software development life cycle. It involves various stakeholders from different professional backgrounds, particularly in the requirements elicitation phase. Each stakeholder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Vaibhav Jain , Ruchika Malhotra , Sanskar Jain , Nishant Tanwar

Recent natural language processing (NLP) techniques have accomplished high performance on benchmark datasets, primarily due to the significant improvement in the performance of deep learning. The advances in the research community have led…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Marwan Omar , Soohyeon Choi , DaeHun Nyang , David Mohaisen

Deep Learning (DL) techniques for Natural Language Processing have been evolving remarkably fast. Recently, the DL advances in language modeling, machine translation and paragraph understanding are so prominent that the potential of DL in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Triet H. M. Le , Hao Chen , M. Ali Babar

In large-scale embedded system development, requirement and test specifications are often expressed in natural language. In the context of developing such products, requirement review is performed in many cases manually using these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Kostadin Rajkovic , Eduard Enoiu

Surprisingly promising results have been achieved by deep learning (DL) systems in recent years. Many of these achievements have been reached in academic settings, or by large technology companies with highly skilled research groups and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Anders Arpteg , Björn Brinne , Luka Crnkovic-Friis , Jan Bosch

Many problems related to the quality of requirements arise during elicitation and specification activities since they are written in natural language. The flexibility and inherent nature of language make requirements prone to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-14 María Guadalupe Gramajo , Luciana Ballejos , Mariel Ale

Natural language (NL) is arguably the most prevalent medium for expressing systems and software requirements. Detecting incompleteness in NL requirements is a major challenge. One approach to identify incompleteness is to compare…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Dipeeka Luitel , Shabnam Hassani , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh

Recent years, the database committee has attempted to develop automatic database management systems. Although some researches show that the applying AI to data management is a significant and promising direction, there still exists many…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yu Yan , Hongzhi Wang , Jian Ma , Jian Geng , Yuzhuo Wang

We tackle the problem of aligning pre-trained large language models (LMs) with human preferences. If we view text generation as a sequential decision-making problem, reinforcement learning (RL) appears to be a natural conceptual framework.…

Recent advancements in natural language processing (NLP) have enabled the development of automated tools that support various domains, including software engineering. However, while NLP and artificial intelligence (AI) research has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Sonia Nicoletti , Paolo Ciancarini