• DocumentCode
    3589344
  • Title

    Resolve the uncertainity in requirement specification to generate the UML diagram

  • Author

    Patel, Gaurav A. ; Priya, A. Swathy

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Software Eng., SRM Univ., Chennai, India
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    7
  • Abstract
    Ambiguity is a critical problem in the software requirement specifications. Requirements are typically expressed in a natural language. However, expressions in natural languages are likely to suffer from ambiguities. Hence, it is essential that when the requirements are analyzed, the ambiguities are resolved to the extent possible, so that the software specifications are free of any potential misinterpretations. One of the attractive alternatives in resolving ambiguities is to convert the informal natural language requirements into their formal or semi-formal counterpart that ensures precision and orthogonality. Towards meeting this goal, the Unified Modeling Language notations can be exploited to an advantage. Being graphical in nature, the UML notations can be easily comprehended by the user and at the same time, being driven by orthogonal syntactic/semantic conventions, the notations help reduce ambiguities greatly. The proposed work is aimed to support the text based information as the requirement specification. It resolves the uncertainty and find the UML components and the relationship among them to generate the accurate the UML Diagram.
  • Keywords
    Unified Modeling Language; formal specification; natural language processing; UML diagram generation; UML notation; Unified Modeling Language; Unified Modeling Language notations; natural language expression; requirement specification; software requirement specification; Conferences; Natural languages; Semantics; Software; Software engineering; Syntactics; Unified modeling language; Natural language processing (NLP); OO analysis/design; Requirement engineering; Software Requirement Specification; Unified Modeling Language; ambiguity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advances in Engineering and Technology (ICAET), 2014 International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICAET.2014.7105213
  • Filename
    7105213