This paper addresses what has been done in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town over the past twenty years to improve students success and hence the quality of our graduates, culminating in the current Phumelela project, which is the major focus of the paper. The paper notes the uneven school education received by incoming students in South Africa ...

Researchers are increasingly recognizing the importance of human aspects in software development and since qualitative methods are used to, in-depth, explore human behavior, we believe that studies using such techniques will become more common. Existing qualitative software engineering guidelines do not cover the full breadth of qualitative methods and knowledge on using them found in the socia...

In recent proposals for the crucial internal structure of the framing Contextual Component within Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2006, 2008) — for example by Rijkhoff (2008:88-97) and Connolly (2007) —, what is here called text is considered as equivalent to discourse within an account of the NP (Rijkhoff) or of context (Connolly). The article purports to show that this con...

This paper surveys and evaluates techniques for eliciting requirements of computer-based systems, paying particular attention to how they deal with social issues. The methods surveyed include introspection, interviews, questionnaires, and protocol, conversation, interaction, and discourse analyses. Although they are relatively untried in Requirements Engineering, we believe there is much promis...

We survey the past and presence of a recently emerging computer science research subdiscipline: software engineering’s research on reuse. The aim of this paper is to learn from software engineers’ experiences with reusing software, try to avoid their errors, and to adapt their know-how according to the special needs of knowledge engineering. So the emphasis lies both in concrete approaches and ...

We are interested in the problem of building an ontology in a heterogeneous organization, by taking into account different viewpoints and different terminologies of communities in the organization. Such ontology, that we call multi-viewpoint ontology, confers to the same universe of discourse, several partial descriptions, where each one is relative to a particular viewpoint. In addition, these...

feminist critical discourse analysis is an approach distinguished by its focus on revealing unequal power relations between women and men in their social life. in the present paper, it is suggested that simone de beauvoir’s theory of the formation of gender identity and female subject in the second sex provides a meaningful theoretical ground to the feminist critical discourse analysis. althoug...

Keywords: language interpretationlanguage generationdiscourse segmentationdiscourse relations Contents list: Theories of discourse structure; Interpretation of discourse; Generation of discourse; Empirical approaches to discourse Discourse Processing concerns the computational processes underlying the interpretation and production of text encompassing more than one sentence, i.e., discourse. Di...

Solution. We propose the DOREF (“do requirements first”) educational framework, which offers a language for requirements engineering combined with generators. Figure 3 shows an example of three requirements with a short name and different attributes. Our language is an internal DSL (domain-specific language) based on Python, thus it is executable. It is supported using a Python workbench such a...

This technical report presents an analysis of synchronous, textual communication occurred between Brazilian and Italian teams involved in agile development planning tasks, using machine translation. The work here presented occurs in the context of the project “The effect of Natural Language Processing on the development of Brazilian capability in the Global Software Development Market” as an in...