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From Chat to Interview: Agentic Requirements Elicitation with an Experience Ontology

Dongming Jin, Linyu Li, Wenchun Jing, Xiaohong Chen, Yaotian Yang, Yuanpeng He, Zheng Fang, Zhi Jin

OntoAgent builds an experience ontology to guide LLMs through structured, more complete requirements elicitation interviews.

arxiv:2605.05828 v1 · 2026-05-07 · cs.SE

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OntoAgent significantly outperforms existing baselines in both elicitation effectiveness and questioning efficiency, achieving a 33% improvement in IRE and a 21% improvement in TKQR.

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That experienced analysts implicitly follow a structured cognitive framework that can be automatically extracted into an ontology and that the four operations (ParseUser, ScoreOnto, ReRankOnto, GatePrune) reliably surface relevant concerns without systematic omission of implicit requirements.

C3one line summary

OntoAgent uses an automatically constructed experience ontology and four guided operations to conduct requirements interviews, outperforming baselines with 33% better IRE and 21% better TKQR in website application experiments.

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[1] Techniques for requirements elicitation,

[2] Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Require- ments Engineering. IEEE, 1993, pp. 152–164 1993

[3] K. Wiegers and J. Beatty,Software requirements. Pearson Education, 2013 2013

[4] Requirements elicitation follow- up question generation, 2025

[5] The state of the art in automated requirements elicitation, 2013

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