Challenges of using LSI for concept location

Authors:
Dapeng Liu;Shaochun Xu
Affiliations:
Detroit, MI;Algoma University College, Laurentian University, ON, Canada
Venue:
ACM-SE 45 Proceedings of the 45th annual southeast regional conference
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Encouraged by the successful application of Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) in natural language analysis and web search engines, researchers recently adopted the LSI technique to locate the source code where a specific feature was implemented, which is called concept location. However, such applications are still at an early stage and need more validation. This paper tries to discuss in depth some challenges of using LSI technique in concept location, both theoretically and practically, with a hope that this work could lead a good research direction to tackle those challenges so that the LSI can be effectively used in concept location.