Rayson, Paul and Emmet, Luke and Garside, Roger and Sawyer, Pete (2001) The REVERE project : Experiments with the application of probabilistic NLP to systems engineering. In: Natural Language Processing and Information Systems - 5th International Conference on Applicationsof Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2000, Revised Papers :. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) . Springer-Verlag, FRA, pp. 288-300. ISBN 3540419438
Abstract
Despite natural language’s well-documented shortcomings as a medium for precise technical description, its use in software-intensive systems engineering remains inescapable. This poses many problems for engineers who must derive problem understanding and synthesise precise solution descriptions from free text. This is true both for the largely unstructured textual descriptions from which system requirements are derived, and for more formal documents, such as standards, which impose requirements on system development processes. This paper describes experiments that we have carried out in the REVERE1 project to investigate the use of probabilistic natural language processing techniques to provide systems engineering support.