On-demand feature recommendations derived from mining public product descriptions

  • Authors:
  • Horatiu Dumitru;Marek Gibiec;Negar Hariri;Jane Cleland-Huang;Bamshad Mobasher;Carlos Castro-Herrera;Mehdi Mirakhorli

  • Affiliations:
  • DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA;DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA;DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA;DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA;DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA;DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA;DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present a recommender system that models and recommends product features for a given domain. Our approach mines product descriptions from publicly available online specifications, utilizes text mining and a novel incremental diffusive clustering algorithm to discover domain-specific features, generates a probabilistic feature model that represents commonalities, variants, and cross-category features, and then uses association rule mining and the k-Nearest-Neighbor machine learning strategy to generate product specific feature recommendations. Our recommender system supports the relatively labor-intensive task of domain analysis, potentially increasing opportunities for re-use, reducing time-to-market, and delivering more competitive software products. The approach is empirically validated against 20 different product categories using thousands of product descriptions mined from a repository of free software applications.