Replication package - A Software Reference Architecture for Natural Language Processing Tools in Requirements Engineering

A Software Reference Architecture for NLP4RE Tools This repository contains the replication package for the study titled "A Software Reference Architecture for Natural Language Processing Tools in Requirements Engineering", submitted for review at the 34th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference. Author and Article Details Author information is omitted to comply with the double blind review requirements:https://conf.researchr.org/track/RE-2026/RE-2026-Research-Papers#instructions-for-the-double-blind-review-process Cite this work as:Citation omitted to comply with double blind review requirements. Description of Artifacts This repository contains the following structure: ├── figures/ │ ├── airera-roadmap.pdf # Illustration of the applied research method (PDF) │ └── airera-roadmap.png # Illustration of the applied research method (PNG) │ ├── process/ # Materials for each SRA creation step (Nakagawa et al.) │ ├── 1 - information source identification/ │ │ └── Related Work.xlsx # Overview of related publications and resources │ │ │ ├── 2 - architectural analysis/ │ │ ├── analysis-process.md # Step by step architectural analysis description │ │ └── Requirements.xlsx # System and architectural requirements with traceability │ │ │ ├── 3 - architectural synthesis/ │ │ ├── synthesis-process.md # Architectural synthesis process description │ │ ├── airera-module-view.pdf # Module view diagram │ │ ├── airera-soa-view.pdf # SOA component and connector view diagram │ │ ├── airera-coc-view-paf.pdf # Pipe and filter component and connector diagram │ │ └── (other supporting artifacts) │ │ │ └── 4 - architectural evaluation/ │ ├── evaluation-process.md # Architectural evaluation process description │ ├── architectural alignment/ # Empirical evaluation data and annotation guidelines │ ├── technology acceptance/ # Survey instrument and supporting documentation │ └── (other supporting artifacts) │ └── LICENSE # License file clarifying reuse conditions License Copyright © 2025 ANONYMOUS.This work is licensed under the MIT License. References [1] Nakagawa, E. Y., Guessi, M., Maldonado, J. C., Feitosa, D., & Oquendo, F. (2014). Consolidating a process for the design, representation, and evaluation of reference architectures. In 2014 IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (pp. 143–152). IEEE.