Analysis of trends in scientific publications by an NLP toolkit: A case study in Software Development Methods for Enhanced Living Environment
Date Issued
2020-04-20
Author(s)
Girma, Melaku
Garcia, Nuno
Kifle, Mesfin
Pombo, Nuno
Abstract
As the number of published scientific articles
increases, the analysis of trends and state-of-the-art in software
engineering is becoming very time-consuming and laborious task. To
address the ever-growing demands for systematic literatures review
techniques, rapid review and scoping reviews techniques have
emerged. We used an NLP powered tool, which employs the
PRISMA surveying methodology, to automate most of the review
processes. We used it to automatically review relevant articles
indexed in IEEE Xplore, PubMed and Springer digital libraries on
the topic “Software Development for Enhanced Living
Environments and Ambient Assisted Living”. The relevant articles
identified by the NLP toolkit contained up to 21 properties clustered
into 3 logical groups. We discovered that Software Development for
Enhanced and Assisted living environments attracted an increased
attention from the scientific communities over the last 10 years and
showed several trends in the specific research topics that fall into this
scope. The research uncovered that iterative software methodology
had been the most attractive research topic in the field. Despite the
enormous empirical evidence on application and success stories of
agile development methodologies in many software development
engineering, it received a little attention from the scientific
community in the software development for Enhanced and Assisted
Living Environments. The NLP toolkit identified the most relevant
articles that contained the defined properties in the search. Hence, it
significantly reduced the manual work, while also generating
informative tables, charts and graphs.
increases, the analysis of trends and state-of-the-art in software
engineering is becoming very time-consuming and laborious task. To
address the ever-growing demands for systematic literatures review
techniques, rapid review and scoping reviews techniques have
emerged. We used an NLP powered tool, which employs the
PRISMA surveying methodology, to automate most of the review
processes. We used it to automatically review relevant articles
indexed in IEEE Xplore, PubMed and Springer digital libraries on
the topic “Software Development for Enhanced Living
Environments and Ambient Assisted Living”. The relevant articles
identified by the NLP toolkit contained up to 21 properties clustered
into 3 logical groups. We discovered that Software Development for
Enhanced and Assisted living environments attracted an increased
attention from the scientific communities over the last 10 years and
showed several trends in the specific research topics that fall into this
scope. The research uncovered that iterative software methodology
had been the most attractive research topic in the field. Despite the
enormous empirical evidence on application and success stories of
agile development methodologies in many software development
engineering, it received a little attention from the scientific
community in the software development for Enhanced and Assisted
Living Environments. The NLP toolkit identified the most relevant
articles that contained the defined properties in the search. Hence, it
significantly reduced the manual work, while also generating
informative tables, charts and graphs.
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