Studying software evolution using topic models

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 80, Issue PART B, 2014, Pages 457-479

  Thomas, Stephen W ^a   Adams, Bram ^b   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Blostein, Dorothea ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Latent Dirichlet allocation; Mining software repositories; Software evolution; Topic model

Indexed keywords

LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS; REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; TOPIC MODELING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; STATISTICS; TOOLS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84889879046     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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