To implement a program functionality, developers can reuse previously written code
snippets by searching through a large-scale codebase. Over the years, many code search …

Context: Knowledge graphs describe knowledge resources and their carriers through
visualization. Moreover, they mine, analyze, construct, draw, and display knowledge and …

This paper presents a literature review in the field of summarizing software artifacts, focusing
on bug reports, source code, mailing lists and developer discussions artifacts. From Jan …

The application of information retrieval techniques to search tasks in software engineering is
made difficult by the lexical gap between search queries, usually expressed in natural …

Software defect information, including links between bugs and committed changes, plays an
important role in software maintenance such as measuring quality and predicting defects …

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provide powerful abstraction mechanisms that
enable complex functionality to be used by client programs. However, this abstraction does …

Sentiment Analysis tools, developed for analyzing social media text or product reviews, work
poorly on a Software Engineering (SE) dataset. Since prior studies have found developers …

Nowadays software applications, and especially mobile apps, undergo frequent release
updates through app stores. After installing/updating apps, users can post reviews and …

Software development is a collaborative activity in which developers interact to create and
maintain a complex software system. Human collaboration inevitably evokes emotions like …

Researchers have proposed several approaches to extract information from user reviews
useful for maintaining and evolving mobile apps. However, most of them just perform …