Environment for Requirements Elicitation Supported by Ontology-Based Conceptual Models: A Proposal

摘要

Requirements Elicitation is a Requirements Engineering activity that aids understanding of the customer's needs. The lack of understanding of the problem domain, the poor communications among stakeholders and a lack of consensus regarding the use of terms, are some of the main challenges of this activity. Ontologies are a type of formalism that can be applied to aid understanding and reach a consensus in a knowledge domain. In this context, the goal of this study is to present a proposal for an environment that supports requirements elicitation from the early stages, when communications are more informal, to the point where a list of software requirements is obtained. This environment will be supported by natural language processing techniques and ontology-based conceptual model represented in OntoUML. An experiment is described with the objective to discuss the opportunities and difficulties that arise on the way to achieve the desired results.