@inproceedings{2f0b2eb7876a4097a2afc525c5621ac9,
title = "COREQQA: a COmpliance REQuirements understanding using question answering tool",
abstract = "We introduce COREQQA, a tool for assisting requirements engineers in acquiring a better understanding of compliance requirements by means of automated Question Answering. Extracting compliance-related requirements by manually navigating through a legal document is both time-consuming and error-prone. COREQQA enables requirements engineers to pose questions in natural language about a compliance-related topic given some legal document, e.g., asking about data breach. The tool then automatically navigates through the legal document and returns to the requirements engineer a list of text passages containing the possible answers to the input question. For better readability, the tool also highlights the likely answers in these passages. The engineer can then use this output for specifying compliance requirements. COREQQA is developed using advanced large-scale language models from BERT's family. COREQQA has been evaluated on four legal documents. The results of this evaluation are briefly presented in the paper. The tool is publicly available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6653514).",
keywords = "BERT, Language Models (LMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Question Answering, Regulatory Compliance, Requirements Engineering (RE)",
author = "Sallam Abualhaija and Chetan Arora and Briand, {Lionel C.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Owner/Author.; 30th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2022 ; Conference date: 14-11-2022 Through 18-11-2022",
year = "2022",
month = nov,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1145/3540250.3558926",
language = "English",
series = "ESEC/FSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "1682--1686",
editor = "Abhik Roychoudhury and Cristian Cadar and Miryung Kim",
booktitle = "ESEC/FSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering",
}