Bridging Natural Language and Formal Specification - Automated Translation of Software Requirements to LTL via Hierarchical Semantics Decomposition Using LLMs
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Automating the translation of natural language (NL) software requirements into formal specifications remains a critical challenge in scaling formal verification practices to industrial settings, particularly in safety-critical domains. Existing approaches, both rule-based and learning-based, face significant limitations. While large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o demonstrate proficiency in semantic extraction, they still encounter difficulties in addressing the complexity, ambiguity, and logical depth of real-world industrial requirements. In this paper, we propose \textbf{Req2LTL}, a modular framework that bridges NL and Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) through a hierarchical intermediate representation called \textit{OnionL}. \textbf{Req2LTL} leverages LLMs for semantic decomposition and combines them with deterministic rule-based synthesis to ensure both syntactic validity and semantic fidelity. Our comprehensive evaluation demonstrates that \textbf{Req2LTL} achieves 88.4% semantic accuracy and 100% syntactic correctness on real-world aerospace requirements, significantly outperforming existing methods.
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