Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information retrieval using a singular value decomposition model of latent semantic structure
SIGIR '88 Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Software requirements: analysis and specification
Software requirements: analysis and specification
Interpreting nominal compounds for information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on natural language processing and information retrieval
Word association norms, mutual information, and lexicography
Computational Linguistics
A probabilistic inference model for information retrieval
Information Systems
The use of phrases and structured queries in information retrieval
SIGIR '91 Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Information retrieval: data structures and algorithms
Information retrieval: data structures and algorithms
The missing link in requirements engineering
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Mastering the requirements process
Mastering the requirements process
A vector space model for automatic indexing
Communications of the ACM
SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Recovering documentation-to-source-code traceability links using latent semantic indexing
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Information Retrieval Models for Recovering Traceability Links between Code and Documentation
ICSM '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'00)
Experiments in Automatic Phrase Indexing For Document Retrieval: A Comparison of Syntactic and Non-Syntactic Methods
Improving Requirements Tracing via Information Retrieval
RE '03 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering
Goal-centric traceability for managing non-functional requirements
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Utilizing Supporting Evidence to Improve Dynamic Requirements Traceability
RE '05 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering
The SMART Retrieval System—Experiments in Automatic Document Processing
The SMART Retrieval System—Experiments in Automatic Document Processing
Advancing Candidate Link Generation for Requirements Tracing: The Study of Methods
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Phrasing in Dynamic Requirements Trace Retrieva
COMPSAC '06 Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference - Volume 01
Poirot: A Distributed Tool Supporting Enterprise-Wide Automated Traceability
RE '06 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Assessing IR-based traceability recovery tools through controlled experiments
Empirical Software Engineering
Improving automated requirements trace retrieval through term-based enhancement strategies
Improving automated requirements trace retrieval through term-based enhancement strategies
Document frequency and term specificity
Large Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video, and Sound)
A machine learning approach for tracing regulatory codes to product specific requirements
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
Towards mining replacement queries for hard-to-retrieve traces
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Requirements tracing: discovering related documents through artificial pheromones and term proximity
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Do better IR tools improve the accuracy of engineers' traceability recovery?
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Machine Learning Technologies in Software Engineering
Enhancing information retrieval to automatically trace requirements and design artifacts
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services
Tracing requirements to tests with high precision and recall
ASE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Test intents: enhancing the semantics of requirements traceability links in test cases
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
RUBRIC: a flexible tool for automated checking of conformance to requirement boilerplates
Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
Enhancing software artefact traceability recovery processes with link count information
Information and Software Technology
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Automated requirements traceability methods that utilize Information Retrieval (IR) methods to generate and maintain traceability links are often more efficient than traditional manual approaches, however the traces they generate are imprecise and significant human effort is needed to evaluate and filter the results. This paper investigates and compares three term-based enhancement methods that are designed to improve the performance of a probabilistic automated tracing tool. Empirical studies show that the enhancement methods can be effective in increasing the accuracy of the retrieved traces; however the effectiveness of each method varies according to specific project characteristics. The analysis of such characteristics has lead to the development of two new project-level metrics which can be used to predict the effectiveness of each enhancement method for a given data set. A procedure to automatically extract critical keywords and phrases from a set of traceable artifacts is also presented to enhance the automated trace retrieval algorithm. The procedure is tested on two new datasets.