CATE: CAusality Tree Extractor from Natural Language Requirements
2021 (English)In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering / [ed] Yue T., Mirakhorli M., IEEE Computer Society , 2021, p. 77-79Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Causal relations (If A, then B) are prevalent in requirements artifacts. Automatically extracting causal relations from requirements holds great potential for various RE activities (e.g., automatic derivation of suitable test cases). However, we lack an approach capable of extracting causal relations from natural language with reasonable performance. In this paper, we present our tool CATE (CAusality Tree Extractor), which is able to parse the composition of a causal relation as a tree structure. CATE does not only provide an overview of causes and effects in a sentence, but also reveals their semantic coherence by translating the causal relation into a binary tree. We encourage fellow researchers and practitioners to use CATE at https://causalitytreeextractor.com/ © 2021 IEEE.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE Computer Society , 2021. p. 77-79
Keywords [en]
Causality Extraction, Natural Language Processing, Tool, Natural language processing systems, Requirements engineering, Semantics, Trees (mathematics), Automatic derivation, Causal relations, Cause and effects, Natural language requirements, Natural languages, Performance, Test case, Tree structures, Binary trees
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-22379DOI: 10.1109/REW53955.2021.00018ISI: 000788547300010Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85118439310ISBN: 9781665418980 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-22379DiVA, id: diva2:1612795
Conference
29th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2021, Virtual, Notre Dame, 20 September 2021 through 24 September 2021
Note
open access
2021-11-192021-11-192022-05-30Bibliographically approved