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[Context and motivation] In Requirements Management, ontologies are used to reconcile gaps in the knowledge and common understanding among stakeholders during requirement elicitation, and therefore significantly improve the quality of the elicited requirements.[Question/problem] However, a precondition of state-of-the-art ontology approaches for requirements elicitation is an existing domain ontology. While this is not a trivial precondition, there are only a few reports on approaches to systematically and efficiently build domain ontologies, and these approaches are often highly biased towards their intended use. [Principal ideas/results] In this paper, we investigate an approach for building domain ontologies suitable for guiding requirements elicitation. We evaluate the feasibility of the approach based on a real-world industrial use case by analyzing natural language text from technical standards. [Contribution] A major outcome is that the proposed approach can help reduce the effort of building domain ontologies from the scratch.
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Omoronyia, I., Sindre, G., Stålhane, T., Biffl, S., Moser, T., Sunindyo, W. (2010). A Domain Ontology Building Process for Guiding Requirements Elicitation . In: Wieringa, R., Persson, A. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14192-8_18
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