An empirical comparison of techniques for extracting concept abbreviations from identifiers

Proceedings of the 10th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 365-370

  Feild, Henry ^a   Binkley, David ^a   Lawrie, Dawn ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Code comprehension; Neural network; Software engineering; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CODE COMPREHENSION; DIVISION MARKERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 35548966183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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