[en] We introduce TAPHSIR -- a tool for anaphoric ambiguity detection and anaphora resolution in requirements. TAPHSIR facilities reviewing the use of pronouns in a requirements specification and revising those pronouns that can lead to misunderstandings during the development process. To this end, TAPHSIR detects the requirements which have potential anaphoric ambiguity and further attempts interpreting anaphora occurrences automatically. TAPHSIR employs a hybrid solution composed of an ambiguity detection solution based on machine learning and an anaphora resolution solution based on a variant of the BERT language model. Given a requirements specification, TAPHSIR decides for each pronoun occurrence in the specification whether the pronoun is ambiguous or unambiguous, and further provides an automatic interpretation for the pronoun. The output generated by TAPHSIR can be easily reviewed and validated by requirements engineers. TAPHSIR is publicly available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5902117).
Centre de recherche :
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > SVV - Software Verification and Validation
Disciplines :
Sciences informatiques
Auteur, co-auteur :
EZZINI, Saad ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SVV
ABUALHAIJA, Sallam ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SVV
Arora, Chetan
Sabetzadeh, Mehrdad
Co-auteurs externes :
yes
Langue du document :
Anglais
Titre :
TAPHSIR: Towards AnaPHoric Ambiguity Detection and ReSolution In Requirements
Date de publication/diffusion :
2022
Nom de la manifestation :
ACM SIGSOFT CONFERENCE ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Date de la manifestation :
from 14-11-2022 to 18-11-2022
Titre de l'ouvrage principal :
ACM SIGSOFT CONFERENCE ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Maison d'édition :
Association for Computing Machinery
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Projet FnR :
FNR12632261 - Early Quality Assurance Of Critical Systems, 2018 (01/01/2019-31/12/2021) - Mehrdad Sabetzadeh
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