Exploring MWEs for Knowledge Acquisition from Corporate Technical Documents

High frequency can convert a word sequence into a multiword expression (MWE), i.e., a collocation. In this paper, we use collocations as well as syntactically-flexible, lexicalized phrases to analyze ‘job specification documents’ (a kind of corporate technical document) for subsequent acquisition of automated knowledge elicitation. We propose the definition of structural and functional patterns of specific corporate documents by analyzing the contexts and sections in which the expression occurs. Such patterns and its automated processing are the basis for identifying organizational domain knowledge and business information which is used later for the first instances of requirement elicitation processes in software engineering.