Using semantic frames to identify related textual requirements: an initial validation

Waad Alhoshan, Liping Zhao, Riza Batista-Navarro

Abstract: Identifying relationships between requirements described in natural language (NL) is a difficult task in requirements engineering (RE). This paper presents a novel approach that uses Semantic Frames in FrameNet to find the relationships between requirements. Our initial validation shows that the approach is promising, with an F-Score of 83%. Our next step is to use the approach to identify implicit requirements relationships and finding requirements traceability links.