MAANA: An Automated Tool for DoMAin-Specific HANdling of Ambiguity

Saad Ezzini; Sallam Abualhaija; Chetan Arora; Mehrdad Sabetzadeh; Lionel Briand

doi:10.1109/ICSE-Companion52605.2021.00082

MAANA: An Automated Tool for DoMAin-Specific HANdling of Ambiguity

Saad Ezzini, Sallam Abualhaija, Chetan Arora, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Lionel Briand

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Abstract

MAANA (in Arabic: 'meaning') is a tool for performingdomain-specific handling of ambiguity in requirements. Given a requirements document as input, MAANA detectsthe requirements that are potentially ambiguous. The focus ofMAANA is on coordination ambiguity and prepositional-phraseattachment ambiguity; these are two common ambiguity typesthat have been studied in the requirements engineering literature. To detect ambiguity, MAANA utilizes structural patterns anda set of heuristics derived from a domain-specific corpus. Thegenerated analysis file after running the tool can be reviewed byrequirements analysts. Through combining different knowledgesources, MAANA highlights also the requirements that mightcontain unacknowledged ambiguity. That is when the analystsunderstand different interpretations for the same requirement, without explicitly discussing it with the other analysts due to timeconstraints. This artifact paper presents the details of MAANA. MAANA is associated with the ICSE 2021 technical papertitled 'Using Domain-specific Corpora for Improved Handlingof Ambiguity in Requirements'. The tool is publicly available onGitHub and Zenodo.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Subtitle of host publication	Companion Proceedings, ICSE-Companion 2021
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	188-189
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665412193
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-Companion52605.2021.00082
State	Published - May 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, ICSE-Companion 2021 - Virtual, Online, Spain Duration: 25 May 2021 → 28 May 2021

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Name	Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
ISSN (Print)	0270-5257

Conference

Conference	43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, ICSE-Companion 2021
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Virtual, Online
Period	25/05/21 → 28/05/21

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.

Keywords

Ambiguity
Corpus Generation
Natural Language Processing
Natural-language Requirements
Requirements Engineering
Wikipedia

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software

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Ezzini, S., Abualhaija, S., Arora, C., Sabetzadeh, M., & Briand, L. (2021). MAANA: An Automated Tool for DoMAin-Specific HANdling of Ambiguity. In Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, ICSE-Companion 2021 (pp. 188-189). (Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-Companion52605.2021.00082

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Ezzini, S, Abualhaija, S, Arora, C, Sabetzadeh, M & Briand, L 2021, MAANA: An Automated Tool for DoMAin-Specific HANdling of Ambiguity. in Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, ICSE-Companion 2021. Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 188-189, 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, ICSE-Companion 2021, Virtual, Online, Spain, 25/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-Companion52605.2021.00082

MAANA: An Automated Tool for DoMAin-Specific HANdling of Ambiguity. / Ezzini, Saad; Abualhaija, Sallam; Arora, Chetan et al.
Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, ICSE-Companion 2021. IEEE Computer Society, 2021. p. 188-189 (Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering).

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Ezzini S, Abualhaija S, Arora C, Sabetzadeh M, Briand L. MAANA: An Automated Tool for DoMAin-Specific HANdling of Ambiguity. In Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, ICSE-Companion 2021. IEEE Computer Society. 2021. p. 188-189. (Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering). doi: 10.1109/ICSE-Companion52605.2021.00082

MAANA: An Automated Tool for DoMAin-Specific HANdling of Ambiguity

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