Controlled Syntax for Thai Software Requirements Specification

Author

Thongglin, K. ; Cardey, S. ; Greenfield, P.

Author_Institution

Centre de Rech. en Linguistique Lucien Tesniere, Univ. de Franche-Comte, Besancon, France

Volume

1

fYear

2012

fDate

7-9 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

964

Lastpage

969

Abstract

Ambiguity is the main problem for software requirements specifications written in natural language. This study describes the problems and ambiguities encountered in Thai software requirements specifications, and proposes a simple approach to writing software requirements specifications in Thai by using controlled syntax. Our approach uses Backus Naur Form to analyze the syntax. We evaluate our approach from the questionnaires received from clients and software engineers. The experiment reports that the average accuracy from clients and software engineers is 88.89% and 86.67% respectively.

Keywords

computational linguistics; formal specification; natural language processing; text analysis; Backus Naur Form; Thai language; Thai software requirements specification; controlled syntax; natural language; software engineer; syntax analysis; Accuracy; Credit cards; Natural language processing; Software; Syntactics; Writing; ambiguity; artificial intelligence; controlled language; natural language processing; software requirements specification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 2012 IEEE 24th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

ISSN

1082-3409

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0227-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTAI.2012.136

Filename

6495150