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Sociotechnical research increasingly includes the social sub-networks that emerge from large-scale sociotechnical infrastructure, including the infrastructure for building open source software. This paper addresses these numerous…

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Context: Navigating the knowledge of Stack Overflow (SO) remains challenging. To make the posts vivid to users, SO allows users to write and edit posts with Markdown or HTML so that users can leverage various formatting styles (e.g., bold,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Shahla Shaan Ahmed , Shaowei Wang , Yuan Tian , Tse-Hsun , Chen , Haoxiang Zhang

Question answering platforms, such as Stack Overflow, have impacted substantially how developers search for solutions for their programming problems. The crowd knowledge content available from such platforms has also been used to leverage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Liliane do Nascimento Vale , Marcelo de Almeida Maia

In many academic disciplines, software is created during the research process or for a research purpose. The crucial role of software for research is increasingly acknowledged. The application of software engineering to research software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Stephan Druskat , Lars Grunske

The methodology of context-sensitive access to e-documents considers context as a problem model based on the knowledge extracted from the application domain, and presented in the form of application ontology. Efficient access to an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. V. Smirnov , T. V. Levashova , M. P. Pashkin , N. G. Shilov , A. A. Krizhanovsky , A. M. Kashevnik , A. S. Komarova

Web-based application developers face a dizzying array of platforms, languages, frameworks and technical artifacts to choose from. We survey, classify, and compare technologies supporting Web application development. The classification is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-01-18 Barry Doyle , Cristina Videira Lopes

Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites globally, yet its role beyond its own platform remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we present the first large-scale analysis of how Wikipedia is referenced across the Web. Using a dataset…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Veniamin Veselovsky , Tiziano Piccardi , Ashton Anderson , Robert West , Akhil Arora

Comprehending an article requires understanding its constituent events. However, the context where an event is mentioned often lacks the details of this event. A question arises: how can the reader obtain more knowledge about this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Xiaodong Yu , Wenpeng Yin , Nitish Gupta , Dan Roth

This paper is concerned with tracking and interpreting scholarly documents in distributed research communities. We argue that current approaches to document description, and current technological infrastructures particularly over the World…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Simon Buckingham Shum , Enrico Motta , John Domingue

This chapter defines and presents different kinds of software ecosystems. The focus is on the development, tooling and analytics aspects of software ecosystems, i.e., communities of software developers and the interconnected software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Tom Mens , Coen De Roover

Software developers often look for solutions to their code-level problems by submitting questions to technical Q&A websites like Stack Overflow (SO). They usually include example code segments with questions to describe the programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Saikat Mondal , Banani Roy

Stack Overflow accumulates an enormous amount of software engineering knowledge. However, as time passes, certain knowledge in answers may become obsolete. Such obsolete answers, if not identified or documented clearly, may mislead answer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Haoxiang Zhang , Shaowei Wang , Tse-Hsun , Chen , Ying Zou , Ahmed E. Hassan

Developers often resort to online Q&A forums such as Stack Overflow (SO) for filling their programming needs. Although code examples on those forums are good starting points, they are often incomplete and inadequate for developers' local…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Tianyi Zhang , Di Yang , Cristina Videira Lopes , Miryung Kim

Online knowledge platforms such as Stack Overflow and Wikipedia rely on a large and diverse contributor community. Despite efforts to facilitate onboarding of new users, relatively few users become core contributors, suggesting the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Timur Bachschi , Aniko Hannak , Florian Lemmerich , Johannes Wachs

As Web sites are now ordinary products, it is necessary to explicit the notion of quality of a Web site. The quality of a site may be linked to the easiness of accessibility and also to other criteria such as the fact that the site is up to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thierry Despeyroux

The paper illustrates the research result of the application of semantic technology to ease the use and reuse of digital contents exposed as Linked Data on the web. It focuses on the specific issue of explorative research for the resource…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2011-10-12 Riccardo Albertoni , Monica De Martino

While open source communities attract diverse contributors across the globe, only a few open source software repositories provide essential documentation, such as ReadMe or CONTRIBUTING files, in languages other than English. Recently,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Elijah Kayode Adejumo , Mariam Guizani , Fatemeh Vares , Brittany Johnson

We present two comprehensive benchmarks to evaluate the performance of language models in coding assistance tasks, covering code writing, debugging, code review, and conceptual understanding. Our main contribution includes two curated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Nidhish Shah , Zulkuf Genc , Dogu Araci

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

Software documentation largely consists of short, natural language summaries of the subroutines in the software. These summaries help programmers quickly understand what a subroutine does without having to read the source code him or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Sakib Haque , Alexander LeClair , Lingfei Wu , Collin McMillan