Mining business topics in source code using Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Proceedings of the 2008 1st India Software Engineering Conference, ISEC'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 113-120

  Maskeri, Girish ^a   Sarkar, Santonu ^a   Heafield, Kenneth ^b  

^a INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (India)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

LDA; Maintenance; Program comprehension

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DOMAIN; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATIONS; LDA; OPEN SOURCES; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROPRIETARY SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES; STATISTICAL MODELS; TEXT DOCUMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 57749188954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1342211.1342234     Document Type: Conference Paper

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