NDLI: Leveraging natural language analysis of software: Achievements, challenges, and opportunities

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Pollock, L.
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, DE, USA (Pollock, L.)
Abstract	Studies continue to report that more time is spent reading, locating, and comprehending code than actually writing code. The increasing size and complexity of software systems makes it significantly more challenging for humans to perform maintenance tasks on software without automated and semi-automated tools to support them, especially in the error-prone tasks. Thus, software engineers increasingly rely on software engineering tools to automate maintenance tasks as much as possible. The program analyses that drive today's software engineering tools have historically focused on analyzing the program's data and control flow, dependencies, and other structural information about the program to uncover and prove program properties. Yet, a software system is more than just the source code and its structure. To build effective software tools, the underlying automated analyses need to use all the information available to make the tools as intelligent and useful as possible. By adapting natural language processing (NLP) to source code analysis, and integrating information retrieval (IR), NLP, and traditional program analyses, we can expect significant improvement in automated and semi-automated software engineering tools for many different software engineering tasks. In this talk, I will overview research in text analysis of software and discuss our achievements to date, the challenges faced in text analysis, and the opportunities for text analysis of software in the future.
Starting Page	4
Ending Page	4
File Size	63824
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467323130
ISSN	10636773
e-ISBN	9781467323123
DOI	10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405245
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-09-23
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software Educational institutions Software engineering Maintenance engineering Natural language processing Text analysis Computer science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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