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This paper presents a method for identifying and classifying agents. Likewise, it also shows a method for identifying entities and attributes based on the definition of the KAOS goal model. The starting point is the specification of software requirements expressed in Spanish. The works presented in the literature fail to identify the traceability that should exist between the natural language and the components of the KAOS goal diagram. The method proposed in this paper makes it possible to achieve the consistency that should exist between natural language and the components (entities with attributes and agents) of the KAOS goal diagram. In other words, said method guarantees coherence between the elements that are being modeled and the natural language. This process serves as a starting point for: (i) identifying the other components of the KAOS goal diagram, and (ii) automatically creating said diagram.
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This paper is part of the research Project entitled “A Terminological Processing Model for Obtaining Software Requirements Based on the KAOS Goal Diagram”. The project’s code is 202010011022, and it is sponsored by the Research Directorate of Universidad Nacional de Colombia—Sede Medellín (DIME) through the “DIME 2012 Research Project Financing” program.
The authors thank specially to Systems Engineering student Carlos Andrés Vélez Carvajal for the unconditional support to the project “A Terminological Processing Model for Obtaining Software Requirements Based on the KAOS Goal Diagram”.
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Lezcano, L.A., Guzmán-Luna, J.A., Gómez, S.A. (2015). Obtaining Agents and Entities from Natural Language. In: Elleithy, K., Sobh, T. (eds) New Trends in Networking, Computing, E-learning, Systems Sciences, and Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 312. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06764-3_5
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