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It is argued that the potential role of natural language processing in the requirements engineering process has been overstated in the past, possibly due to fundamental misunderstandings of the requirements engineering process itself. Since more realistic ambitions are likely to lead to less disappointment in the future, an effort is made to identify some phases and tasks where natural language processing may usefully be applied. It is suggested that the validation of requirements must remain an informal, social process.

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The planning of additional features and releases is a major concern for commercial software companies. We describe how, in collaboration with Ericsson Radio Systems, we developed and tested an industrially useful approach to software requirements prioritization.

The types of knowledge used during requirements acquisition are identified and a tool to aid in this process, ReqColl (Requirements Collector) is introduced. The tool uses conceptual graphs to represent domain concepts and attempts to recognise new concepts through the use of a matching facility. The overall approach to requirements capture is first described and the approach to matching illustrated informally.The detailed procedure for matching conceptual graphs is then given. Finally ReqColl is compared to similar work elsewhere and some future research directions indicated.