Extracting Elements of Component-based Systems from Natural Language Requirements

K.-K. Lau, A. Nordin and K.-Y. Ng
School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
{kung-kiu,anordin,kng}@cs.manchester.ac.uk

Abstract:

Extracting keywords from  requirements has been done for various modelling purposes, 
e.g. for defining object-oriented analysis and design models, but it has not been done 
for mapping requirements directly to (executable) component-based systems. In this paper 
we argue that the latter is possible if the underlying component model provides suitable 
encapsulation and hence separation of key elements of component-based systems. We show how 
we can extract keywords that correspond to elements of a component model that we have defined.