Evaluating the specificity of text retrieval queries to support software engineering tasks

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1273-1276

  Haiduc, Sonia ^a   Bavota, Gabriele ^b   Oliveto, Rocco ^c   Marcus, Andrian ^a   De Lucia, Andrea ^b  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Concept location; Query specificity; Text retrieval

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT LOCATIONS; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INFORMATION NEED; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUERY SPECIFICITY; SEARCH RESULTS; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOURCE CODES; TEXT RETRIEVAL; TEXTUAL QUERY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84864225686     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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