Supporting developers with natural language queries

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 165-174

  Würsch, Michael ^a   Ghezzi, Giacomo ^a   Reif, Gerald ^a   Gall, Harald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

conceptual queries; natural language; semantic web; software evolution; software maintenance; source code analysis; tool support

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY; MODEL DATA; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NOVICE PROGRAMMER; OWL ONTOLOGIES; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS; STATIC SOURCES; WEB SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; LINGUISTICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 77954721417     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1806799.1806827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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