Abstract—Requirements form the legal basis for many
development pro-jects. They are usually exchanged between
customer and supplier in the form of product and requirements
specifications and re-quire a subsequent integration effort into
the corresponding requirements management solutions.
Especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME),
which mainly use office solutions for the management of
requirements, this involves a very high integration effort, which
is why this is usually only partially managed or not managed at
all. Software solutions available on the market already offer
support, but they are too expensive or complex, especially for
small companies.
The project DAM4KMU, funded by German Federal
Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), addresses this
challenge and by enabling SMEs from Germany to integrate
requirement documents automatically into existing
requirement structures with the help of NLP-based techniques.
For this purpose, the documents to be processed are divided
into semantic roles, which can then be transferred into a
semantic data structure. This in turn enables an automatic
linking of the requirements and system components, which
reduces the manual effort and avoids possible errors.
Index Terms—Requirements engineering, NLP,
context-sensitive assistance.
Simon Fritz, Ryan Arbai, and Chenwei Sun are with the Intelligent
Systems and Production Engineering (ISPE), Research Center for
Information Technology (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany (e-mail: fritz@fzi.de,
rarbai@fzi.de, sun@fzi.de).
Vethiga Srikanthan is with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),
Karlsruhe, Germany (e-mail: vethisri@gmail.com).
Jivka Ovtcharova is with the Institute for Information Management in
Engineering (IMI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe,
Germany (e-mail: jivka.ovtcharova@kit.edu).
Hendro Wicaksono is with the Industrial Engineering Mathematics &
Logistics, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, Bremen, Germany (e-mail:
h.wicaksono@jacobs-university.de).
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Cite: Simon Fritz, Vethiga Srikanthan, Ryan Arbai, Chenwei Sun, Jivka Ovtcharova, and Hendro Wicaksono, "Automatic Information Extraction from Text-Based Requirements," International Journal of Knowledge Engineering vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 8-13, 2021.
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