Natural language processing in-and-for design research

L. Siddharth, Lucienne Blessing, Jianxi Luo
2022 Design Science  
We review the scholarly contributions that utilise natural language processing (NLP) techniques to support the design process. Using a heuristic approach, we gathered 223 articles that are published in 32 journals within the period 1991–present. We present state-of-the-art NLP in-and-for design research by reviewing these articles according to the type of natural language text sources: internal reports, design concepts, discourse transcripts, technical publications, consumer opinions and
more » ... Upon summarising and identifying the gaps in these contributions, we utilise an existing design innovation framework to identify the applications that are currently being supported by NLP. We then propose a few methodological and theoretical directions for future NLP in-and-for design research.
doi:10.1017/dsj.2022.16 fatcat:zxp476pxrbemxkpaoutsixjwem