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Requirements Engineering 2021
Mon 20 - Fri 24 September 2021
Wed 22 Sep 2021 12:30 - 13:00 at Basilica - Privacy Chair(s): Samuel Fricker

Privacy policies are legal documents containing application data practices. These documents are well-established sources of requirements in software engineering. However, privacy policies are written in natural language, thus subject to ambiguity and abstraction. Eliciting requirements from privacy policies is a challenging task as these ambiguities can result in more than one interpretation of a given information type (e.g., ambiguous information type “device information” in the statement “we collect your device information”). To address this challenge, we propose an automated approach to infer semantic relations among information types and construct an ontology that can be used to guide requirements authors in the selection of the most appropriate information type terms. Our solution utilizes word embeddings and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to classify information type pairs as either hypernymy, synonymy, or unknown. We evaluate our model on a manually-built ontology, yielding predictions that identify hypernymy relations in information type pairs with 0.904 F-1 score, suggesting a large reduction in effort required for ontology construction.

Wed 22 Sep

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12:00 - 13:00
PrivacyResearch Papers at Basilica
Chair(s): Samuel Fricker FHNW & BTH

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30m
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Agile Teams' Perception in Privacy Requirements Elicitation: LGPD's compliance in BrazilResearch Paper
Research Papers
Edna Dias Canedo Computer Science Department - University of Brasília, Angelica Toffano Seidel Calazans University center -- UniCEUB, Anderson Jefferson Cerqueira Computer Science Department - University of Brasília, Pedro Henrique Teixeira Costa UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA, Eloisa Toffano Seidel Masson University center -- UniCEUB
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Ambiguity and Generality in Natural Language Privacy PoliciesResearch Paper
Research Papers
Mitra Bokaei Hosseini St. Mary's University, John Heaps University of Texas at San Antonio, Rocky Slavin University of Texas at San Antonio, Travis Breaux Carnegie Mellon University, Jianwei Niu University of Texas at San Antonio