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Many platforms exploit collaborative tagging to provide their users with faster and more accurate results while searching or navigating. Tags can communicate different concepts such as the main features, technologies, functionality, and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Maliheh Izadi , Abbas Heydarnoori , Georgios Gousios

Monitoring issue tracker submissions is a crucial software maintenance activity. A key goal is the prioritization of high risk, security-related bugs. If such bugs can be recognized early, the risk of propagation to dependent products and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Sogol Masoumzadeh , Yufei Li , Shane McIntosh , Dániel Varró , Lili Wei

With the growing ubiquity of multi-core architectures, concurrent systems have become essential but increasingly prone to complex issues such as data races and deadlocks. While modern issue-tracking systems facilitate the reporting of such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Shuai Shao , Lu Xiao , Tingting Yu

An issue tracker is a software tool used by organisations to interact with users and manage various aspects of the software development lifecycle. With the rise of agile methodologies, issue trackers have become popular in open and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Lloyd Montgomery , Clara Lüders , Walid Maalej

Nowadays, development teams often rely on tools such as Jira or Bugzilla to manage backlogs of issues to be solved to develop or maintain software. Although they relate to many different concerns (e.g., bug fixing, new feature development,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Quentin Perez , Pierre-Antoine Jean , Christelle Urtado , Sylvain Vauttier

Large open-source projects receive a large number of issues (known as bugs), including software defect (i.e., bug) reports and new feature requests from their user and developer communities at a fast rate. The often limited project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Riley Pierson , Armin Moin

Developers often struggle to navigate an Open Source Software (OSS) project's issue-tracking system and find a suitable task. Proper issue labeling can aid task selection, but current tools are limited to classifying the issues according to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Joseph Vargovich , Fabio Santos , Jacob Penney , Marco A. Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

Label noise is frequently observed in real-world large-scale datasets. The noise is introduced due to a variety of reasons; it is heterogeneous and feature-dependent. Most existing approaches to handling noisy labels fall into two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yikai Zhang , Songzhu Zheng , Pengxiang Wu , Mayank Goswami , Chao Chen

Most bug assignment approaches utilize text classification and information retrieval techniques. These approaches use the textual contents of bug reports to build recommendation models. The textual contents of bug reports are usually of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mamdouh Alenezi , Shadi Banitaan , Mohammad Zarour

Multi-label classification is a common supervised machine learning problem where each instance is associated with multiple classes. The key challenge in this problem is learning the correlations between the classes. An additional challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Divya Padmanabhan , Satyanath Bhat , Shirish Shevade , Y. Narahari

Bug reports are a popular target for natural language processing (NLP). However, bug reports often contain artifacts such as code snippets, log outputs and stack traces. These artifacts not only inflate the bug reports with noise, but often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Thomas Hirsch , Birgit Hofer

GitHub has become an important platform for code sharing and scientific exchange. With the massive number of repositories available, there is a pressing need for topic-based search. Even though the topic label functionality has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yu Zhang , Frank F. Xu , Sha Li , Yu Meng , Xuan Wang , Qi Li , Jiawei Han

In recent years, rapid technological advancements and expanded Internet access have led to a significant rise in anomalies within network traffic and time-series data. Prompt detection of these irregularities is crucial for ensuring service…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mahshid Rezakhani , Tolunay Seyfi , Fatemeh Afghah

In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised text classification approach for bug triage to avoid the deficiency of labeled bug reports in existing supervised approaches. This new approach combines naive Bayes classifier and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jifeng Xuan , He Jiang , Zhilei Ren , Jun Yan , Zhongxuan Luo

A key requirement for supervised machine learning is labeled training data, which is created by annotating unlabeled data with the appropriate class. Because this process can in many cases not be done by machines, labeling needs to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Nicolas Michael Müller , Karla Markert

Classification is a fundamental task in machine learning. While conventional methods-such as binary, multiclass, and multi-label classification-are effective for simpler problems, they may not adequately address the complexities of some…

Online programming courses are becoming more and more popular, but they still have significant drawbacks when compared to the traditional education system, e.g., the lack of feedback. In this study, we apply machine learning methods to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Artyom Lobanov , Timofey Bryksin , Alexey Shpilman

Selecting an appropriate task is challenging for contributors to Open Source Software (OSS), mainly for those who are contributing for the first time. Therefore, researchers and OSS projects have proposed various strategies to aid…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Fabio Santos

A large volume of accident reports is recorded in the aviation domain, which greatly values improving aviation safety. To better use those reports, we need to understand the most important events or impact factors according to the accident…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Xinyu Zhao , Hao Yan , Yongming Liu

Identifying scientific publications that are within a dynamic field of research often requires costly annotation by subject-matter experts. Resources like widely-accepted classification criteria or field taxonomies are unavailable for a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Autumn Toney-Wails , Christian Schoeberl , James Dunham