A semantic relatedness approach for traceability link recovery

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 183-192

  Mahmoud, Anas ^a   Niu, Nan ^a   Xu, Songhua ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

automated tracing; experimentation; information search and retrieval; semantic relatedness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; QUALITY CONTROL; VECTOR SPACES;

AUTOMATED TRACINGS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EXPERIMENTATION; INFORMATION SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; RETRIEVAL MECHANISMS; SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; TRACEABILITY INFORMATION;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84864970133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpc.2012.6240487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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