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On the worldwide web, not only are webpages connected but source code is too. Software development is becoming more accessible to everyone and the licensing for software remains complicated. We need to know if software licenses are being…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Stephen Romansky , Cheng Chen , Baljeet Malhotra , Abram Hindle

The use of domain knowledge is generally found to improve query efficiency in content filtering applications. In particular, tangible benefits have been achieved when using knowledge-based approaches within more specialized fields, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Pekka Malo , Pyry Siitari , Oskar Ahlgren , Jyrki Wallenius , Pekka Korhonen

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 2018-05-08 Sebastian Baltes , Lorik Dumani , Christoph Treude , Stephan Diehl

As a popular Q&A site for programming, Stack Overflow is a treasure for developers. However, the amount of questions and answers on Stack Overflow make it difficult for developers to efficiently locate the information they are looking for.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Kaibo Cao , Chunyang Chen , Sebastian Baltes , Christoph Treude , Xiang Chen

The online technical Q&A site Stack Overflow (SO) is popular among developers to support their coding and diverse development needs. To address shortcomings in API official documentation resources, several research has thus focused on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Gias Uddin , Foutse Khomh , Chanchal K Roy

The number of Internet users had grown rapidly enticing companies and cooperations to make full use of recommendation infrastructures. Consequently, online advertisement companies emerged to aid us in the presence of numerous items and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-30 S. M. Mahdi Seyednezhad , Kailey Nobuko Cozart , John Anthony Bowllan , Anthony O. Smith

Open source software development, particularly within institutions such as universities and research laboratories, is often decentralized and difficult to track. Although academic teams produce many impactful scientific tools, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Juanita Gomez , Emily Lovell , Stephanie Lieggi , Alvaro A. Cardenas , James Davis

This study provides a conceptual overview of the literature dealing with the process of citing documents (focusing on the literature from the recent decade). It presents theories, which have been proposed for explaining the citation…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Iman Tahamtan , Lutz Bornmann

Software is a central part of modern science, and knowledge of its use is crucial for the scientific community with respect to reproducibility and attribution of its developers. Several studies have investigated in-text mentions of software…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-04-19 David Schindler , Tazin Hossain , Sascha Spors , Frank Krüger

We address the problem of finding descriptive explanations of facts stored in a knowledge graph. This is important in high-risk domains such as healthcare, intelligence, etc. where users need additional information for decision making and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Sumit Bhatia , Purusharth Dwivedi , Avneet Kaur

The widespread use of smartphones and tablets has made society heavily reliant on mobile applications (apps) for accessing various resources and services. These apps often handle sensitive personal, financial, and health data, making app…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Timothy Huo , Ana Catarina Araújo , Jake Imanaka , Anthony Peruma , Rick Kazman

Context:Software Development Analytics is a research area concerned with providing insights to improve product deliveries and processes. Many types of studies, data sources and mining methods have been used for that purpose. Objective:This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Joao Caldeira , Fernando Brito e Abreu , Jorge Cardoso , Rachel Simões , Toacy Oliveira , José Reis

Code review is a key practice in software engineering, where developers evaluate code changes to ensure quality and maintainability. Links to issues and external resources are often included in Pull Requests (PRs) to provide additional…

Background: Assessing and communicating software engineering research can be challenging. Design science is recognized as an appropriate research paradigm for applied research but is seldom referred to in software engineering. Applying the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Emelie Engström , Margaret-Anne Storey , Per Runeson , Martin Höst , Maria Teresa Baldassarre

Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software developers, providing a large amount of copyable code snippets. Using those snippets raises maintenance and legal issues. SO's license (CC BY-SA 3.0) requires…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Sebastian Baltes , Stephan Diehl

Citation texts are sometimes not very informative or in some cases inaccurate by themselves; they need the appropriate context from the referenced paper to reflect its exact contributions. To address this problem, we propose an unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian

The Workflows as Code paradigm is becoming increasingly essential to streamline the design and management of complex processes within data-intensive software systems. These systems require robust capabilities to process, analyze, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jerin Yasmin , Jiale Wang , Yuan Tian , Bram Adams

Stack Overflow is the most popular Q&A website among software developers. As a platform for knowledge sharing and acquisition, the questions posted in Stack Overflow usually contain a code snippet. Stack Overflow relies on users to properly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Kamel Alreshedy , Dhanush Dharmaretnam , Daniel M. German , Venkatesh Srinivasan , T. Aaron Gulliver

While coreference resolution is traditionally used as a component in individual document understanding, in this work we take a more global view and explore what can we learn about a domain from the set of all document-level coreference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Shir Ashury-Tahan , Amir David Nissan Cohen , Nadav Cohen , Yoram Louzoun , Yoav Goldberg

Context information has emerged as an important resource to enable autonomy and flexibility of pervasive applications. The widespread use of context information necessitates efficient wide-area lookup services. In this paper, we present the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Tao Gu , Hung Keng Pung , Daqing Zhang