NLP4RE: First International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering Utrecht, Netherlands, March 19, 2018 |
Conference website | http://fmt.isti.cnr.it/nlp4re/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlp4re |
Submission deadline | January 15, 2018 |
Natural language processing (NLP) has played an important role in several computer science areas, and requirements engineering (RE) is not an exception. In the last years, the advent of massive and very heterogeneous natural language (NL) RE-relevant sources, like tweets and app reviews, has attracted even more interest from the RE community.
The main goal of the NLP4RE workshop is to set up a regular meeting point for the researchers on NLP technologies in RE in which the advances, challenges and barriers that they encounter may be communicated, and collaborations may emerge naturally.
The workshop will welcome contributions in the field of theory and application of NLP technologies in RE. We also encourage contributions that highlight challenges faced by industrial practitioners when dealing with requirements expressed in NL, and faced by academics in technology transfer studies.
We are particularily interested in Report Papers (see submission guidelines below), in which the authors provide an overview on the current and past research of their teams. These contributions do not require novelty with respect to previous work, because the main goal of the workshop is to foster discussion and networking. A non-mandatory template for Report Papers can be dowloaded here.
NLP4RE is co-located with the 24th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'18), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 19-22 March, 2018.
Submission Guidelines
NLP4RE welcomes four types of papers:
Report Papers
2 to 4 pages (plus 1 page for references), in which the authors provide an overview on the current and past research of their team, describing what they have been doing on the workshop's topics, and/or what they are doing, and/or what they plan to do. These contributions do not require novelty with respect to previous work, and are oriented to foster discussion and networking. A non-mandatory template for Report Papers can be dowloaded here.
Vision Papers
Maximum length 4 pages (plus 1 page for references), outlining roadmaps for research in the workshop's topics, including industrial and research challenges based on currently available knowledge. Specifically, we encourage contributions that highlight challenges faced by industrial practitioners when dealing with requirements expressed in NL, and faced by academics in technology transfer studies.
Technical Design Papers
Maximum length 8 pages (plus 1 page for references), describing novel technical solutions for the application of NLP technologies to RE-relevant artifacts. The papers in this category include preliminary solutions to RE problems, with an early validation.
Experience Papers
Maximum length 8 pages (plus 1 page for references), describing practical experiences in the application of NLP technologies to RE-relevant artifacts. The papers in this category include experience reports, industrial case studies, controlled experiments, and other types of empirical studies conducted to practically assess existing technical solutions.
Submissions should be in PDF, on A4 page size, single column and formatted according to the CEUR Proceedings Style:
- Formatting styles can be found here
- The LaTeX style file to use is onecolceurws.sty
- The template to follow is paper1.tex
- Your paper should look like paper1.pdf
All papers will be peer-reviewed by three members of the Program Committee, and will appear in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings, with ISBN number.
Important Dates:
- Paper submission deadline: January 15th, 2018
- Acceptance/Rejection Notification: February 5th, 2018
- Early registration deadline for Workshop authors: February 26th, 2018
- Camera Ready deadline: February 26th, 2018
- Workshop day: March 29th, 2018
List of Topics
Within the area of NLP for RE, the topics of interest of the workshop include but are not limited to:
- Requirements quality assessment
- App Review analysis and classification
- Tweet mining and analysis for RE
- Bug report mining and analysis for RE
- Automated requirements management
- Multi-modal requirements analysis
- Ambiguity and defect detection in requirements
- Requirements tracing
- Requirements retrieval
- Domain-specific ontology learning
- Functional and non-functional requirements categorisation
- Model synthesis from requirements
- Information extraction (abstraction identification, feature extraction)
- Formalisation of informal requirements
- Question-answering systems for RE
- Discourse analysis for RE
- Argumentation for RE
- Summarisation of requirements documents
- Structure assessment for requirements documents
- Completeness assessment for requirements documents
- Speech-to-text and speech analysis in requirements elicitation
- Requirements datasets
Committees
Program Committee
- Daniel M. Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Jörg Dörr, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
- Henning Femmer, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Davide Fucci, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa, Italy
- Eduard Groen, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
- Emitzá Guzmán, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Garm Lucassen, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
- Daniel Méndez, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy
- Barbara Paech, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Nicolas Sannier, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Pete Sawyer, Aston University, UK
- Norbert Seyff, University of Zurich and University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern, Switzerland
- Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Andreas Vogelsang, TU Berlin, Germany
Organizing committee
- Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
- Alessio Ferrari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo’’ (CNR-ISTI), Italy.
- Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona (UPC-BarcelonaTech), Spain.
- Cristina Palomares, Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona (UPC-BarcelonaTech), Spain.
Invited Speakers
- Daniel M. Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to f.dalpiaz@uu.nl, or alessio.ferrari@isti.cnr.it, or franch@essi.upc.edu, or cpalomares@essi.upc.edu