Grammatical and Semantic Disambiguation of Requirements at Elicitation and Representation Stages

Francois Christophe; Min Wang; Eric Coatanea; Yong Zeng; Alain Bernard

doi:10.1115/DETC2011-48139

Grammatical and Semantic Disambiguation of Requirements at Elicitation and Representation Stages

Francois Christophe, Min Wang, Eric Coatanea, Yong Zeng, Alain Bernard

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Abstract

The final outcome of a design process depends a lot on the initial conditions of this process. The initial design conditions can be viewed as the initial definition and representation of the design problem in the form of requirement model. Describing the requirements involves considering their elicitation and its transformation in a form that can be further used by engineering designers. These two phases of requirements, elicitation and representation, involve by nature linguistic description. Users, stakeholders or designers express themselves through natural language. Semantics considerations involve understanding aspects that comes down to word selection or connotation but also interpretation aspects of written terms used by communities or persons within particular circumstances and contexts. The present research work is constructed around a central hypothesis: Final design outcomes are strongly dependent on the initial design conditions because of the recursive nature of the design activity.

The present article claims that computer tools can support the disambiguation process associated with elicitation and representation. For this reason the authors have developed an experimental process aiming at reducing ambiguity of the parts of the initial conditions of the design process that are expressed in natural language. This disambiguation is considering several levels: the grammar, words selection and context description.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering, 2011, vol 9
Publisher	AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Pages	17-31
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	978-0-7918-5486-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2011-48139
Publication status	Published - 2012
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2011 - Washington, DC, United States Duration: 28 Aug 2011 → 31 Aug 2011

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Name	Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
Volume	9

Conference

Conference	ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2011
Country/Territory	United States
City	Washington, DC
Period	28/08/11 → 31/08/11

Keywords

PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS
DESIGN

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Publication forum level 0

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Modelling and Simulation
Mechanical Engineering
Computer Science Applications
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Semantics and knowledge engineering for requirements and synthesis in conceptual design: Towards the automation of requirements clarification and the synthesis of conceptual design solutions
Christophe, F., 17 Sept 2012, Aalto University. 205 p. (Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS)
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Christophe, F., Wang, M., Coatanea, E., Zeng, Y., & Bernard, A. (2012). Grammatical and Semantic Disambiguation of Requirements at Elicitation and Representation Stages. In Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering, 2011, vol 9 (pp. 17-31). (Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference; Vol. 9). AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2011-48139

Christophe, Francois ; Wang, Min ; Coatanea, Eric et al. / Grammatical and Semantic Disambiguation of Requirements at Elicitation and Representation Stages. Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering, 2011, vol 9. AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, 2012. pp. 17-31 (Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference).

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Christophe, F, Wang, M, Coatanea, E, Zeng, Y & Bernard, A 2012, Grammatical and Semantic Disambiguation of Requirements at Elicitation and Representation Stages. in Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering, 2011, vol 9. Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, vol. 9, AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, pp. 17-31, ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2011, Washington, DC, United States, 28/08/11. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2011-48139

Grammatical and Semantic Disambiguation of Requirements at Elicitation and Representation Stages. / Christophe, Francois; Wang, Min; Coatanea, Eric et al.
Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering, 2011, vol 9. AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, 2012. p. 17-31 (Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference; Vol. 9).

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Grammatical and Semantic Disambiguation of Requirements at Elicitation and Representation Stages

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Semantics and knowledge engineering for requirements and synthesis in conceptual design: Towards the automation of requirements clarification and the synthesis of conceptual design solutions

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