Case study: Supplementing program analysis with natural language analysis to improve a reverse engineering task

ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 49-54

  Shepherd, David ^a   Pollock, Lori ^a   Vijay Shanker, K ^a  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspect mining; Natural language; Program analysis; Software tools

Indexed keywords

ASPECT MINING; COMPLEX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM ANALYSIS; REVERSE ENGINEERING TOOLS;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 36549037604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1251535.1251544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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