An empirical exploration of regularities in open-source software lexicons

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 228-232

  Pierret, Derrin ^a   Poshyvanyk, Denys ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUG REPORTS; DESIGN DECISIONS; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; DOMAIN CONCEPTS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; OBJECT-ORIENTED LANGUAGES; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE SCIENCE; SOURCE CODES; STATISTICAL NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ZIPF-MANDELBROT LAWS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LINGUISTICS; MARKUP LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 70349982833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2009.5090047     Document Type: Article

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