Text Analysis

The purpose of this process is to develop the rules and algorithms to identify the requirement concepts automatically. In the identification of requirement concepts, there are two approaches;

  1. Using extensive domain knowledge and reasoning process. – This is an AI approach.
  2. Using lexical analysis and syntactic pattern analysis.
We adopted the second approach since it is typically more practical and also domain independent. The object and function concepts can be identified by syntactic pattern analysis and noun and verb classification. The identification of quality goals use of a quality goal table, thesaurus analysis, and syntactic pattern analysis.