Semantic clustering: Identifying topics in source code

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 230-243

  Kuhn, Adrian ^a   Ducasse, Stéphane ^b   Gîrba, Tudor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Clustering; Latent Semantic Indexing; Reverse engineering; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; SOURCE CODE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846409962     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2006.10.017     Document Type: Article

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