An information retrieval approach to concept location in source code

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 214-223

  Marcus, Andrian ^a   Sergeyev, Andrey ^a   Rajlieh, Václav ^a   Maletic, Jonathan I ^b  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT LOCATION PROCESSES; IDENTIFIERS; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING (LSI); SOURCE CODE PREPROCESSING;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA STRUCTURES; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UNIX; WEB BROWSERS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 18144387283     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2004.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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