TIDIER: An identifier splitting approach using speech recognition techniques

Journal of software: Evolution and Process

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 575-599

  Guerrouj, Latifa ^a   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^b   Antoniol, Giuliano ^a   Guéh́eneuc, Yann Gaël ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Identifier splitting; Linguistic analysis; Program comprehension

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE PROCESS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; IDENTIFIER SPLITTING; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84883654687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.539     Document Type: Article

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