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TAPHSIR: towards AnaPHoric ambiguity detection and ReSolution in requirements

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  • Saad Ezzini
  • Sallam Abualhaija
  • Chetan Arora
  • Mehrdad Sabetzadeh
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Publication date7/11/2022
Host publicationESEC/FSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
EditorsAbhik Roychoudhury, Cristian Cadar, Miryung Kim
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages1677-1681
Number of pages5
ISBN (electronic)9781450394130
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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NameESEC/FSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Abstract

We introduce TAPHSIR - a tool for anaphoric ambiguity detection and anaphora resolution in requirements. TAPHSIR facilities reviewing the use of pronouns in a requirements specification and revising those pronouns that can lead to misunderstandings during the development process. To this end, TAPHSIR detects the requirements which have potential anaphoric ambiguity and further attempts interpreting anaphora occurrences automatically. TAPHSIR employs a hybrid solution composed of an ambiguity detection solution based on machine learning and an anaphora resolution solution based on a variant of the BERT language model. Given a requirements specification, TAPHSIR decides for each pronoun occurrence in the specification whether the pronoun is ambiguous or unambiguous, and further provides an automatic interpretation for the pronoun. The output generated by TAPHSIR can be easily reviewed and validated by requirements engineers. TAPHSIR is publicly available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5902117).