Empirical language analysis in software linguistics

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Marie Favre;Dragan Gasevic;Ralf Lämmel;Ekaterina Pek

  • Affiliations:
  • OneTree Technologies, Luxembourg;Athabasca University, Canada;Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany;Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SLE'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Software language engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Software linguistics is the science of software languages. In this short paper, we sketch the general discipline of software linguistics, but our focus is on one part of it: empirical analysis of software languages. Such analysis is concerned with understanding language usage on the grounds of a corpus. In this short paper, we sketch a survey on empirical language analysis, and we argue that the research method of content analysis is needed for a thorough survey.