Inferring semantically related words from software context

IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 161-170

  Yang, Jinqiu ^a   Tan, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

code search; program comprehension; Semantically related words

Indexed keywords

CODE SEARCH; INTEGRAL PART; PRECISION AND RECALL; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; REASONABLE ACCURACY; SEMANTICALLY-RELATED WORDS; WORDNET;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84865108074     PISSN: 21601852     EISSN: 21601860     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2012.6224276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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