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GitHub is the world's largest platform for collaborative software development, with over 100 million users. GitHub is also used extensively for open data collaboration, hosting more than 800 million open data files, totaling 142 terabytes…

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GitHub repositories consist of various detailed information about the project contributors, the number of commits and its contributors, releases, pull requests, programming languages, and issues. However, no systematic dataset of open…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shreyansh Surana , Smit Detroja , Saurabh Tiwari

Software teams are increasingly adopting different tools and communication channels to aid the software collaborative development model and coordinate tasks. Among such resources, Programming Community-based Question Answering (PCQA) forums…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Marcia Lima , Igor Steinmacher , Denae Ford , Evangeline Liu , Grace Vorreuter , Tayana Conte , Bruno Gadelha

Wikidata is a collaborative knowledge graph which has already drawn the attention of practitioners and researchers. It is the work of a community of volunteers, supported by policies, guidelines and automatic programs (bots) which perform a…

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How can we identify similar repositories and clusters among a large online archive, such as GitHub? Determiningrepository similarity is an essential building block in studying the dynamics and the evolution of such software ecosystems. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Md Omar Faruk Rokon , Pei Yan , Risul Islam , Michalis Faloutsos

Social coding platforms, such as GitHub, serve as laboratories for studying collaborative problem solving in open source software development; a key feature is their ability to support issue reporting which is used by teams to discuss tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Ayesha Enayet , Gita Sukthankar

Software repository hosting services contain large amounts of open-source software, with GitHub hosting more than 100 million repositories, from new to established ones. Given this vast amount of projects, there is a pressing need for a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Cezar Sas , Andrea Capiluppi

The development of Open-Source Software (OSS) projects relies on the collaborative work of contributors, generally scattered around the world. To enable this collaboration, OSS projects are hosted on social-coding platforms like GitHub,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Sergio Cobos , Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo

Social media platforms serve as a significant medium for sharing personal emotions, daily activities, and various life events, ensuring individuals stay informed about the latest developments. From the initiation of an account, users…

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Named entity recognition is an important task when constructing knowledge bases from unstructured data sources. Whereas entity detection methods mostly rely on extensive training data, Large Language Models (LLMs) have paved the way towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Lu Gan , Martin Blum , Danilo Dessi , Brigitte Mathiak , Ralf Schenkel , Stefan Dietze

While social media are a key source of data for computational social science, their ease of manipulation by malicious actors threatens the integrity of online information exchanges and their analysis. In this Chapter, we focus on malicious…

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As software development practices increasingly adopt AI-powered tools, ensuring that such tools can support secure coding has become critical. This study evaluates the effectiveness of GitHub Copilot's recently introduced code review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Amena Amro , Manar H. Alalfi

Bot Detection is an essential asset in a period where Online Social Networks(OSN) is a part of our lives. This task becomes more relevant in crises, as the Covid-19 pandemic, where there is an incipient risk of proliferation of social bots,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Marzia Antenore , Jose M. Camacho-Rodriguez , Emanuele Panizzi

Our goal is to understand the characteristics of high-performing teams on GitHub. Towards this end, we collect data from software repositories and evaluate teams by examining differences in productivity. Our study focuses on the team…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Samaneh Saadat , Olivia B. Newton , Gita Sukthankar , Stephen M. Fiore

Git is widely used for collaborative software development, but it can be challenging for newcomers. While most learning tools focus on individual workflows, Git is inherently collaborative. We present GitAcademy, a browser-based learning…

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Human-AI collaborative tools attract attentions from the data storytelling community to lower the expertise barrier and streamline the workflow. The recent advance in large-scale generative AI techniques, e.g., large language models (LLMs)…

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Collaborative consensus-finding is an integral element of many Web services and greatly determines the quality of information, content, and products that are available through the Web. That also means that the dynamics of democratic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Aditya Mehta , Arun Paudyal , Atul Sharma , Zyanya Ambros , Ipek Baris , Jun Sun , Oul Han , Akram Sadat Hosseini

Software bots connect users and tools, streamlining the pull request review process in social coding platforms. However, bots can introduce information overload into developers' communication. Information overload is especially problematic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Eric Ribeiro , Ronan Nascimento , Igor Steinmacher , Laerte Xavier , Marco Gerosa , Hugo de Paula , Mairieli Wessel

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are increasingly used in software engineering (SE) for tasks such as code, test, and documentation generation. However, engineers often face uncertainty about when to…

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Machine learning systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, yet they remain vulnerable to bias systematic disparities that disproportionately impact specific demographic groups. Traditional bias detection methods often depend…

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