Identifying word relations in software: A comparative study of semantic similarity tools

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 123-132

  Sridhara, Giriprasad ^a   Hill, Emily ^a   Pollock, Lori ^a   Vijay Shanker, K ^a  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SOFTWARE; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; RELATION INFORMATION; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE TOOLS; STATE OF THE ARTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION THEORY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 71149104752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2008.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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