An application of natural language processing to domain modelling: Two case studies

This paper describes an approach for analysis of natural language requirements documents and two case studies conducted to prove the feasibility of the approach. The goal of the analysis is to define a common language understood both by the domain expert and the software engineer. To define Such a common language, it is necessary to extract terms from the text written by domain expert. The extracted terms must be classified to build a taxonomy. This taxonomy is augmented by associations between terms to build a domain ontology. The paper introduces two case studies that illustrate feasibility of the approach. The first case study was conducted to test the approach itself and showed that the approach works, hut certain interaction with human analyst is necessary. The second case study showed that this interaction does not consume too much time so that the approach scales to larger documents.