Linguistics-Based Modeling Methods and Ontologies in Requirements Engineering

erschienen January-March 2010 Special Issue "Semantic-based Systems Development" in: International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (IJEIS), Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 12-28.

Verlag: IGI Publishing, IGI-Global.

ISBN: ISSN 1548-1115

Developing new software based on requirements specifications created by business analysts often leads to misunderstanding and lack of comprehension, because of the different backgrounds of the people involved. If requirements specifications instead have a clearly defined structure and comprehensive semantics, this obstacle can be resolved. Therefore, we propose to structure the requirements specifications using existing linguistics-based modeling methods and annotate the used terms with ontologies to enhance the understanding and reuse of these documents during the software engineering process.

Keywords: Ontologies, Requirements Specification, Semantic Data Model, Semiotics, Structural Modeling