Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2024, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (2): 386-395.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2024.000004

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Operational requirements analysis method based on question answering of WEKG

Zhiwei ZHANG(), Yajie DOU(), Xiangqian XU(), Yufeng MA(), Jiang JIANG(), Yuejin TAN()   

  • Received:2022-05-07 Online:2024-04-18 Published:2024-04-18
  • Contact: Yajie DOU E-mail:zhangzhiwei_nudt@163.com;yajiedou_nudt@163.com;xuxiangqian18@163.com;mashuang9707@163.com;jiangjiangnudt@163.com;yuejintan@nudt.edu.cn
  • About author:
    ZHANG Zhiwei was born in 1999. He received his B.S. degree from Shandong University in 2021. He is a graduate student in National University of Defense Technology. His research interests are intelligent manufacturing, requirements engineering, knowledge graph. E-mail: zhangzhiwei_nudt@163.com

    DOU Yajie was born in 1987. He received his B.S. degree from Wuhan University in 2008. He is a Ph.D. and an associate professor in National University of Defense Technology. His research interests are system evaluation and combination decision analysis, military requirements intelligent decision technology. E-mail: yajiedou_nudt@163.com

    XU Xiangqian was born in 1995. He received his B.S. degree from National University of Defense Technology in 2018. He is a Ph.D student in National University of Defense Technology. His research interests are defense acquisition and system project management. E-mail: xuxiangqian18@163.com

    MA Yufeng was born in 1997. She received her B.S. degree from Northeast Forestry University in 2020. She is a Ph.D student in National University of Defense Technology. Her research interests are intelligent manufacturing, requirements engineering, knowledge graph. E-mail: mashuang9707@163.com

    JIANG Jiang was born in 1984. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in alternative engineering from National University of Defense Technology in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a associate professor at School of Information Alternative and Management, National University of Defense Technology. His research interests include multiple criteria decision making and risk analysis. E-mail: jiangjiangnudt@163.com

    TAN Yuejin was born in 1958. He received his B.S. degree from National University of Defense Technology in 1982. He is a professor in National University of Defense Technology. His research interests are system of systems requirements modeling, system of system architecture design and optimization, complex network and system modeling and simulation. E-mail: yuejintan@nudt.edu.cn

Abstract:

The weapon and equipment operational requirement analysis (WEORA) is a necessary condition to win a future war, among which the acquisition of knowledge about weapons and equipment is a great challenge. The main challenge is that the existing weapons and equipment data fails to carry out structured knowledge representation, and knowledge navigation based on natural language cannot efficiently support the WEORA. To solve above problem, this research proposes a method based on question answering (QA) of weapons and equipment knowledge graph (WEKG) to construct and navigate the knowledge related to weapons and equipment in the WEORA. This method firstly constructs the WEKG, and builds a neutral network-based QA system over the WEKG by means of semantic parsing for knowledge navigation. Finally, the method is evaluated and a chatbot on the QA system is developed for the WEORA. Our proposed method has good performance in the accuracy and efficiency of searching target knowledge, and can well assist the WEORA.

Key words: operational requirement analysis, weapons and equipment knowledge graph (WEKG), question answering (QA), neutral network