A device may receive work item data identifying work items associated with requirements from different tools of a project and may perform data cleansing to remove and/or modify particular words from the work item data and to generate cleansed work item data. The device may perform natural language processing on the cleansed work item data to identify synonyms for words in the cleansed work item data and may replace abbreviations in the cleansed work item data with full form text to generate final work item data. The device may identify keywords in the final work item data and may process the final work item data, the synonyms, and the keywords, with a machine learning model, to identify mappings between work items of the final work item data and to determine a confidence score for the mappings. The device may perform actions based on the mappings and the confidence score.