Structured answers for a large structured document collection
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Software reconnaissance: mapping program features to code
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The concept assignment problem in program understanding
ICSE '93 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Software Engineering
Modern Information Retrieval
Concern graphs: finding and describing concerns using structural program dependencies
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Leveraging Legacy System Dollars for E-Business
IT Professional
Nomen Est Omen: Analyzing the Language of Function Identifiers
WCRE '99 Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
A brief survey of program slicing
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Choosing document structure weights
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Locating causes of program failures
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Automatic generation of suggestions for program investigation
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Dynamic Feature Traces: Finding Features in Unfamiliar Code
ICSM '05 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Empirical evaluation of the tarantula automatic fault-localization technique
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on Automated software engineering
Combining Probabilistic Ranking and Latent Semantic Indexing for Feature Identification
ICPC '06 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
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VLHCC '06 Proceedings of the Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Representing concerns in source code
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Using natural language program analysis to locate and understand action-oriented concerns
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
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Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Exploring the neighborhood with dora to expedite software maintenance
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Extraction of bug localization benchmarks from history
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Static deadlock detection for java libraries
ECOOP'05 Proceedings of the 19th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
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With as much as 60-90% of software life cycle resources spent on program maintenance, there is a critical need for automated software tools to help explore and understand today's large and complex software. One important source of information software maintenance tools can draw from is lexical information in comments and identifiers. Identifier names often communicate a programmer's intent when writing code, and help developers map real-world concepts to code during comprehension. My dissertation will develop specialized information retrieval techniques and natural language analyses for software so that software maintenance tools can take full advantage of the wealth of information in program identifiers, and integrate these techniques into software tools to expedite the maintenance activities of program exploration, concern location, and fault localization.