NLP4RE 2018 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering

Natural language processing (NLP) has played an important role in several computer science areas, and requirements engineering (RE) is not an exception. In the last years, the advent of massive and very heterogeneous natural language (NL) RE-relevant sources, like tweets and app reviews, has attracted even more interest from the RE community.
The main goal of the NLP4RE workshop is to set up a regular meeting point for the researchers on NLP technologies in RE in which the advances, challenges and barriers that they encounter may be communicated, and collaborations may emerge naturally.
The workshop will welcome contributions in the field of theory and application of NLP technologies in RE. We also encourage contributions that highlight challenges faced by industrial practitioners when dealing with requirements expressed in NL, and faced by academics in technology transfer studies.
We are particularily interested in Report Papers (see the call for papers here), in which the authors provide an overview on the current and past research of their teams. These contributions do not require novelty with respect to previous work, because the main goal of the workshop is to foster discussion and networking. A non-mandatory template for Report Papers can be dowloaded here.
Within the area of NLP for RE, the topics of interest of the workshop include but are not limited to:
Requirements quality assessment
App Review analysis and classification
Tweet mining and analysis for RE
Bug report mining and analysis for RE
Automated requirements management
Multi-modal requirements analysis
Ambiguity and defect detection in requirements
Requirements tracing
Requirements retrieval
Domain-specific ontology learning
Functional and non-functional requirements categorisation
Model synthesis from requirements
Information extraction (abstraction identification, feature extraction)
Formalisation of informal requirements
Question-answering systems for RE
Discourse analysis for RE
Argumentation for RE
Summarisation of requirements documents
Structure assessment for requirements documents
Completeness assessment for requirements documents
Speech-to-text and speech analysis in requirements elicitation
Requirements datasets
NLP4RE is co-located with the 24th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'18), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 19-22 March, 2018.