Retrieval from software libraries for bug localization: A comparative study of generic and composite text models

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 43-52

  Rao, Shivani ^a   Kak, Avinash ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bug localization; information retrieval; latent dirichlet allocation; latent semantic analysis; software engineering

Indexed keywords

BUG LOCALIZATION; CLUSTER-BASED; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DATA SETS; DOCUMENT MODEL; GENERIC MODELS; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES; TEXT MODELS; TEXTUAL DESCRIPTION; UNIGRAM MODELS; VECTOR SPACE MODELS;

MODELS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VECTOR SPACES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 79959238989     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985441.1985451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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