Duplicate bug report detection with a combination of information retrieval and topic modeling

2012 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 70-79

  Nguyen, Anh Tuan ^a   Nguyen, Tung Thanh ^a   Nguyen, Tien N ^a   Lo, David ^b   Sun, Chengnian ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Duplicate bug reports; Information retrieval; Topic model

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DETECTION; BUG REPORTS; DETECTION APPROACH; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; HISTORICAL DATA; REAL-WORLD SYSTEM; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; TEXT-BASED INFORMATION; TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS; TIME EFFICIENCIES; TOPIC MODEL; DUPLICATE BUG REPORTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 84866943985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2351676.2351687     Document Type: Conference Paper

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