Automatically capturing source code context of NL-queries for software maintenance and reuse

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 232-242

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

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUERY REFORMULATION; SEARCH RESULTS; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES; STATIC CODES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; LINGUISTICS; MAINTAINABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 77949886473     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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