Enhancing automated requirements traceability by resolving polysemy

Wentao Wang, Nan Niu, Hui Liu, Zhendong Niu

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Requirements traceability provides critical support throughout all phases of software engineering. Automated tracing based on information retrieval (IR) reduces the effort required to perform a manual trace. Unfortunately, IR-based trace recovery suffers from low precision due to polysemy, which refers to the coexistence of multiple meanings for a term appearing in different requirements. Latent semantic indexing (LSI) has been introduced as a method to tackle polysemy, as well as synonymy. However, little is known about the scope and significance of polysemous terms in requirements tracing. While quantifying the effect, we present a novel method based on artificial neural networks (ANN) to enhance the capability of automatically resolving polysemous terms. The core idea is to build an ANN model which leverages a term's highest-scoring coreferences in different requirements to learn whether this term has the same meaning in those requirements. Experimental results based on 2 benchmark datasets and 6 long-lived open-source software projects show that our approach outperforms LSI on identifying polysemous terms and hence increasing the precision of automated tracing.

源语言英语
主期刊名Proceedings - 2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2018
编辑Daniel Amyot, Walid Maalej, Guenther Ruhe
出版商Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
40-51
页数12
ISBN(电子版)9781538674185
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 12 10月 2018
活动26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2018 - Banff, 加拿大
期限: 20 8月 201824 8月 2018

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姓名Proceedings - 2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2018

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会议26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2018
国家/地区加拿大
Banff
时期20/08/1824/08/18

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Wang, W., Niu, N., Liu, H., & Niu, Z. (2018). Enhancing automated requirements traceability by resolving polysemy. 在 D. Amyot, W. Maalej, & G. Ruhe (编辑), Proceedings - 2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2018 (页码 40-51). 文章 8491122 (Proceedings - 2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2018). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2018.00-53