On the use of stemming for concern location and bug localization in Java

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 12th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 184-193

  Hill, Emily ^a   Rao, Shivani ^b   Kak, Avinash ^b  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bug localization; concern location; stemming; textual analysis of source code identifiers

Indexed keywords

BUG LOCALIZATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; JAVA APPLICATIONS; JAVA SOFTWARE; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUALITATIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SEARCH TASKS; SOURCE CODE SEARCHES; SOURCE CODES; STEMMING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84872326357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCAM.2012.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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