SISTEDES Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis 2026

Quim Motger doctoral thesis, entitled Natural Language Processing Methods for Document-based Requirements Specification and Validation Tasks, received the SISTEDES Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis 2026.

The thesis was defended on November 4, 2024, and applies advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques to automate and improve requirements management in software projects, especially in complex environments and based on documents providing innovative solutions in traceability, analysis and collection of requirements feedback, demonstrating significant improvements in efficiency and precision in real scenarios.

This SISTEDES award, annually recognizes the best doctoral theses in the field of software engineering at Spain.

The thesis is available through DOI: 10.5821/dissertation-2117-417795.