Recovering documentation-to-source-code traceability links using latent semantic indexing

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 125-135

  Marcus, Andrian ^a   Maletic, Jonathan I ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; SEMANTICS;

DOCUMENTATION TO SOURCE CODE TRACEABILITY LINKS; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; SOURCE CODE; SOURCE DOCUMENTATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037925467     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icse.2003.1201194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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