Extracting rights and obligations from regulations: toward a tool-supported process

Security, privacy and governance are increasingly the focus of government regulations in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. This trend has created a “regulation compliance” problem, whereby companies and developers are required to ensure that their software complies with relevant regulations, either through design or reengineering. We previously proposed a methodology for extracting stakeholder requirements, called rights and obligations, from regulations. In this paper, we examine the challenges of developing tool support for this process. We apply the Cerno framework for textual semantic annotation to propose a tool for semi-automatic semantic annotation of concepts that constitute sources of requirements. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.1 [Requirements/Specifications]: Tools; I.7.5 [Document and Text Processing]: Document Capture—Document analysis; K.5.2 [Legal Aspects of Computing]: Governmental Issues—Regulation General Terms Legal Aspects, Management, Experimentatio...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: KBSE
• Authors: Nadzeya Kiyavitskaya, Nicola Zeni, Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón, James R. Cordy, Luisa Mich, John Mylopoulos
• Keywords: KBSE 2007, Regulation Compliance, Semantic Annotation, Software Engineering, Tool Support