@inproceedings{da36027255fb4e618eb6e1a43d137677,
title = "UD on Software Requirements: Application and Challenges",
abstract = "Technical documents present distinct challenges when used in natural language processing tasks such as part-of-speech tagging or syntactic parsing. This is mainly due to the nature of their content, which may differ greatly from more studied texts like news articles, encyclopedic extracts or social media entries. This work contributes an English corpus composed of software requirement texts annotated in Universal Dependencies (UD) to study the differences, challenges and issues encountered on these documents when following the UD guidelines. Different structural and linguistic phenomena are studied in the light of their impact on manual and automatic dependency annotation. To better cope with texts of this nature, some modifications and features are proposed in order to enrich the existing UD guidelines to better cover technical texts. The proposed corpus is compared to other existing corpora to show the structural complexity of the texts as well as the challenge it presents to recent processing methods. This contribution is the first software requirement corpus annotated with UD relations.",
author = "Na{\"i}ma Hassert and M{\'e}nard, \{Pierre Andr{\'e}\} and Edith Galy",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 The Association for Computational Linguistics.; 5th Workshop on Universal Dependencies, UDW 2021 ; Conference date: 21-03-2021 Through 25-03-2021",
year = "2021",
language = "English",
series = "UDW 2021 - 5th Workshop on Universal Dependencies, Proceedings - To be held as part of SyntaxFest 2021",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
pages = "62--74",
editor = "\{de Lhoneux\}, Miryam and \{de Lhoneux\}, Miryam and \{de Lhoneux\}, Miryam and Reut Tsarfaty and Reut Tsarfaty",
booktitle = "UDW 2021 - 5th Workshop on Universal Dependencies, Proceedings - To be held as part of SyntaxFest 2021",
address = "Australia",
}