A method to identify potential ambiguous Malay words through Ambiguity Attributes mapping: An exploratory Study
This work addresses the issue of vagueness in Malay requirement specifications and related documents, but it is incremental as it adapts existing attributes and rules to a specific language.
The researchers tackled the problem of ambiguous words in Malay documentation by developing a method to identify and map potential ambiguous words to ambiguity attributes, resulting in a verified list of 120 words.
We describe here a methodology to identify a list of ambiguous Malay words that are commonly being used in Malay documentations such as Requirement Specification. We compiled several relevant and appropriate requirement quality attributes and sentence rules from previous literatures and adopt it to come out with a set of ambiguity attributes that most suit Malay words. The extracted Malay ambiguous words (potential) are then being mapped onto the constructed ambiguity attributes to confirm their vagueness. The list is then verified by Malay linguist experts. This paper aims to identify a list of potential ambiguous words in Malay as an attempt to assist writers to avoid using the vague words while documenting Malay Requirement Specification as well as to any other related Malay documentation. The result of this study is a list of 120 potential ambiguous Malay words that could act as guidelines in writing Malay sentences