Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering: The Best Is Yet to Come

As part of the growing interest in natural language processing for requirements engineering (RE), RE researchers, computational linguists, and industry practitioners met at the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE 18). This article summarizes the workshop and presents an overview of the discussion held on the field’s future. This article is part of a theme issue on software engineering’s 50th anniversary.

Workshop Summary

NLP4RE 18 was collocated with the 24th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 18), in Utrecht in March 2018. It lasted one day and had 20 to 30 attendees at any given time.