Expanding identifiers to normalize source code vocabulary

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 113-122

  Lawrie, Dawn ^a   Binkley, Dave ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

natural language processing; program comprehension; source code analysis tools

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SYSTEM; EFFECTIVE TOOL; FEATURE LOCATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS; SOURCE CODES; TOOL DEVELOPMENT; TOOL SUPPORT; WORK-RELATED;

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

STATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 83455214120     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2011.6080778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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