Automatic query reformulations for text retrieval in software engineering

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 842-851

  Haiduc, Sonia ^a   Bavota, Gabriele ^b   Marcus, Andrian ^a   Oliveto, Rocco ^c   De Lucia, Andrea ^b   Menzies, Tim ^d  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Query Reformulation; Text Retrieval

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT LOCATIONS; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGES; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM; QUERY PERFORMANCE; QUERY REFORMULATION; TEXT RETRIEVAL; TRACEABILITY LINKS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPEN SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84886393561     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2013.6606630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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