A comparative study of the performance of IR models on duplicate bug detection

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 159-168

  Kaushik, Nilam ^a   Tahvildari, Ladan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bug; Duplicate; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

BUG; BUG DETECTION; BUG REPORTS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DUPLICATE; FIREFOX; IR MODELS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPTIMAL RESULTS; RANDOM PROJECTIONS; RECALL RATE; SEARCH CAPABILITIES; SURFACE FEATURE; TOPIC-BASED MODEL; VECTOR SPACE MODELS; WEIGHTING SCHEME; WORD-BASED MODEL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REENGINEERING;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 84860530550     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2012.78     Document Type: Conference Paper

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