Detecting Ambiguities in Requirement Documents Written in Arabic Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Abstract

The identification of ambiguities in Arabic requirement documents plays a crucial role in requirements engineering. This is because the quality of requirements directly impacts the overall success of software development projects. Traditionally, engineers have used manual methods to evaluate requirement quality, leading to a time-consuming and subjective process that is prone to errors. This study explores the use of machine learning algorithms to automate the assessment of requirements expressed in natural language. The study aims to compare various machine learning algorithms according to their abilities in classifying requirements written in Arabic as decision tree. The findings reveal that random forest outperformed all stemmers, achieving an accuracy of 0.95 without employing a stemmer, 0.99 with the ISRI stemmer, and 0.97 with the Arabic light stemmer. These results highlight the robustness and practicality of the random forest algorithm.