On the role of the nouns in IR-based traceability recovery

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 148-157

  Capobianco, Giovanni ^a   De Lucia, Andrea ^b   Oliveto, Rocco ^b   Panichella, Annibale ^a   Panichella, Sebastiano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); SEMANTICS; VECTOR SPACES;

IR MODELS; RECOVERY METHODS; RECOVERY TECHNIQUES; TRACEABILITY INFORMATION;

RECOVERY;

EID: 70350037593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2009.5090038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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