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Tue 22 Mar 2022 11:45 - 12:05 at Conference Room 3 - Machine Learning for RE Chair(s): Dan Berry

Context and motivation: Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques are constantly improving their capabilities, and deep learning approaches are now used in the daily practice of several application domains. Requirements engineering (RE) research has traditionally incorporated NLP solutions to address its fundamental tasks, such as classification, tracing and defect detection. Question/problem: However, RE research often suffers from lack of annotated datasets, and this makes it difficult to fully exploit supervised NLP techniques in general, and deep-learning ones in the specific, thereby losing the potential advantages offered by these techniques. Principal ideas/results: To address the problem of limited annotated datasets, we propose to use zero-shot classification, and apply this learning paradigm to RE tasks that can be treated as classification problems. We experimented with the task of distinguishing between two types of NFR requirements: usability and security requirement, and obtained encouraging weighted F-scores over 80% and almost perfect recall rates from a number of the tested models, without any training data or fine-tuning. Contribution: This work paves the basis for further research in application of zero-shot learning, and towards the solution of the long-standing problem of dataset annotation in RE.

Tue 22 Mar

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11:00 - 12:30
Machine Learning for REResearch Papers at Conference Room 3
Chair(s): Dan Berry University of Waterloo
11:00
45m
Talk
Abbreviation-Expansion Pair Detection for Glossary Term ExtractionScientific Evaluation
Research Papers
Hussein Hasso Fraunhofer FKIE, Katharina Großer University of Koblenz-Landau, Iliass Aymaz Fraunhofer FKIE, Hanna Geppert Fraunhofer FKIE, Jan Jürjens University of Koblenz-Landau
11:45
20m
Talk
A Zero-Shot Learning Approach to Classifying Requirements: Preliminary StudyResearch Preview
Research Papers
Waad Alhoshan Al-Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud Islamic University, Liping Zhao University of Manchester, Alessio Ferrari CNR-ISTI, Keletso J. Letsholo Higher Colleges of Technology