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Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Md Johirul Islam , Hoan Anh Nguyen , Rangeet Pan , Hridesh Rajan

Visual content in the form of images and videos has taken over general-purpose social networks in a variety of ways, streamlining and enriching online communications. We are interested to understand if and to what extent the use of images…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Maleknaz Nayebi , Bram Adams

Since its release in November 2022, ChatGPT has shaken up Stack Overflow, the premier platform for developers queries on programming and software development. Demonstrating an ability to generate instant, human-like responses to technical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Leuson Da Silva , Jordan Samhi , Foutse Khomh

Software developers have benefited from various sources of knowledge such as forums, question-and-answer sites, and social media platforms to help them in various tasks. Extracting software-related knowledge from different platforms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Agus Sulistya , Gede Artha Azriadi Prana , Abhishek Sharma , David Lo , Christoph Treude

Stack Overflow (SO) platform has a huge dataset of questions and answers driven by interactions between users. But the count of unanswered questions is continuously rising. This issue is common across various community Question & Answering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Abhishek Kumar , Deep Ghadiyali , Sridhar Chimalakonda

Many static benchmarks are beginning to saturate: as models rapidly improve, they achieve near-perfect scores on fixed test sets, leaving little headroom to expose genuine model weaknesses -- and even expert-curated challenge sets quickly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Wenda Xu , Vilém Zouhar , Parker Riley , Mara Finkelstein , Markus Freitag , Daniel Deutsch

Free and open source software is widely used in the creation of software systems, whereas many organisations choose to provide their systems as open source. Open source software carries licenses that determine the conditions under which the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Maria Papoutsoglou , Georgia M. Kapitsaki , Daniel German , Lefteris Angelis

Traditional code search engines often do not perform well with natural language queries since they mostly apply keyword matching. These engines thus need carefully designed queries containing information about programming APIs for code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , David Lo

In this paper, we present a framework for Question Difficulty and Expertise Estimation (QDEE) in Community Question Answering sites (CQAs) such as Yahoo! Answers and Stack Overflow, which tackles a fundamental challenge in crowdsourcing:…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Jiankai Sun , Sobhan Moosavi , Rajiv Ramnath , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Developers frequently reuse Stack Overflow code snippets, yet the quality of these snippets remains unevenly understood, particularly across programming languages and geographic contexts. This study investigates code quality in Stack…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Elijah Zolduoarrati , Sherlock A. Licorish , Nigel Stanger

Context: Stack Overflow is very helpful for software developers who are seeking answers to programming problems. Previous studies have shown that a growing number of questions are of low quality and thus obtain less attention from potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Fengji Zhang , Xiao Yu , Jacky Keung , Fuyang Li , Zhiwen Xie , Zhen Yang , Caoyuan Ma , Zhimin Zhang

Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software developers, providing a large amount of code snippets and free-form text on a wide variety of topics. Like other software artifacts, questions and answers on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Sebastian Baltes , Lorik Dumani , Christoph Treude , Stephan Diehl

Stack Overflow incentive system awards users with reputation scores to ensure quality. The decentralized nature of the forum may make the incentive system prone to manipulation. This paper offers, for the first time, a comprehensive study…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Iren Mazloomzadeh , Gias Uddin , Foutse Khomh , Ashkan Sami

Tagging items with descriptive annotations or keywords is a very natural way to compress and highlight information about the properties of the given entity. Over the years several methods have been proposed for extracting a hierarchy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Gergely Tibély , Péter Pollner , Tamás Vicsek , Gergely Palla

Intelligent services are becoming increasingly more pervasive; application developers want to leverage the latest advances in areas such as computer vision to provide new services and products to users, and large technology firms enable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Alex Cummaudo , Rajesh Vasa , Scott Barnett , John Grundy , Mohamed Abdelrazek

This thesis conducts a focused literature review on online communities, centering on Stack Overflow, employing social network analysis and graph algorithms. It examines the evolving landscape of health information quality within the digital…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Rapheal Cyril Igbudu , Rowanda Ahmed

The challenges associated with using pre-trained models (PTMs) have not been specifically investigated, which hampers their effective utilization. To address this knowledge gap, we collected and analyzed a dataset of 5,896 PTM-related…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Xin Tan , Taichuan Li , Ruohe Chen , Fang Liu , Li Zhang

Software developers have heavily used online question and answer platforms to seek help to solve their technical problems. However, a major problem with these technical Q&A sites is "answer hungriness" i.e., a large number of questions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zhipeng Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy

Frequently asked questions (FAQs) are a popular way to document software development knowledge. As creating such documents is expensive, this paper presents an approach for automatically extracting FAQs from sources of software development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Stefan Henß , Martin Monperrus , Mira Mezini

One of the best ways for developers to test and improve their skills in a fun and challenging way are programming challenges, offered by a plethora of websites. For the inexperienced ones, some of the problems might appear too challenging,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Bianca Iancu , Gabriele Mazzola , Kyriakos Psarakis , Panagiotis Soilis