From Online User Feedback to Requirements: Evaluating Large Language Models for Classification and Specification Tasks
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| author | Mallya, Manjeshwar Aniruddh Ferrari, Alessio Zadenoori, Mohammad Amin Dąbrowski, Jacek |
| author_facet | Mallya, Manjeshwar Aniruddh Ferrari, Alessio Zadenoori, Mohammad Amin Dąbrowski, Jacek |
| contents | [Context and Motivation] Online user feedback provides valuable information to support requirements engineering (RE). However, analyzing online user feedback is challenging due to its large volume and noise. Large language models (LLMs) show strong potential to automate this process and outperform previous techniques. They can also enable new tasks, such as generating requirements specifications.
[Question-Problem] Despite their potential, the use of LLMs to analyze user feedback for RE remains underexplored. Existing studies offer limited empirical evidence, lack thorough evaluation, and rarely provide replication packages, undermining validity and reproducibility.
[Principal Idea-Results] We evaluate five lightweight open-source LLMs on three RE tasks: user request classification, NFR classification, and requirements specification generation. Classification performance was measured on two feedback datasets, and specification quality via human evaluation. LLMs achieved moderate-to-high classification accuracy (F1 ~ 0.47-0.68) and moderately high specification quality (mean ~ 3/5).
[Contributions] We newly explore lightweight LLMs for feedback-driven requirements development. Our contributions are: (i) an empirical evaluation of lightweight LLMs on three RE tasks, (ii) a replication package, and (iii) insights into their capabilities and limitations for RE. |
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| spellingShingle | From Online User Feedback to Requirements: Evaluating Large Language Models for Classification and Specification Tasks Mallya, Manjeshwar Aniruddh Ferrari, Alessio Zadenoori, Mohammad Amin Dąbrowski, Jacek Software Engineering [Context and Motivation] Online user feedback provides valuable information to support requirements engineering (RE). However, analyzing online user feedback is challenging due to its large volume and noise. Large language models (LLMs) show strong potential to automate this process and outperform previous techniques. They can also enable new tasks, such as generating requirements specifications. [Question-Problem] Despite their potential, the use of LLMs to analyze user feedback for RE remains underexplored. Existing studies offer limited empirical evidence, lack thorough evaluation, and rarely provide replication packages, undermining validity and reproducibility. [Principal Idea-Results] We evaluate five lightweight open-source LLMs on three RE tasks: user request classification, NFR classification, and requirements specification generation. Classification performance was measured on two feedback datasets, and specification quality via human evaluation. LLMs achieved moderate-to-high classification accuracy (F1 ~ 0.47-0.68) and moderately high specification quality (mean ~ 3/5). [Contributions] We newly explore lightweight LLMs for feedback-driven requirements development. Our contributions are: (i) an empirical evaluation of lightweight LLMs on three RE tasks, (ii) a replication package, and (iii) insights into their capabilities and limitations for RE. |
| title | From Online User Feedback to Requirements: Evaluating Large Language Models for Classification and Specification Tasks |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23055 |