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App reviews reflect various user requirements that can aid in planning maintenance tasks. Recently, proposed approaches for automatically classifying user reviews rely on machine learning algorithms. A previous study demonstrated that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yasaman Abedini , Abbas Heydarnoori

Mobile app review analysis presents unique challenges due to the low quality, subjective bias, and noisy content of user-generated documents. Extracting features from these reviews is essential for tasks such as feature prioritization and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Quim Motger , Alessio Miaschi , Felice Dell'Orletta , Xavier Franch , Jordi Marco

Text mining methods are used for a wide range of Software Engineering (SE) tasks. The biggest challenge of text mining is high dimensional data, i.e., a corpus of documents can contain $10^4$ to $10^6$ unique words. To address this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Amritanshu Agrawal , Huy Tu , Tim Menzies

Explainability, i.e. the ability of a system to explain its behavior to users, has become an important quality of software-intensive systems. Recent work has focused on methods for generating explanations for various algorithmic paradigms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Max Unterbusch , Mersedeh Sadeghi , Jannik Fischbach , Martin Obaidi , Andreas Vogelsang

This work analyzes ethical concerns found in users' app store reviews. We performed this study because ethical concerns in mobile applications (apps) are widespread, pose severe threats to end users and society, and lack systematic analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Lauren Olson , Neelam Tjikhoeri , Emitzá Guzmán

In recent years, mobile accessibility has become an important trend with the goal of allowing all users the possibility of using any app without many limitations. User reviews include insights that are useful for app evolution. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Wajdi Aljedaani , Murtaza Tamjeed , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Yasmine N. Elglaly

Problem: We address the challenge in responsible computing where an exploitable mobile app is misused by one app user (an abuser) against another user or bystander (victim). We introduce the idea of a misuse audit of apps as a way of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Vaibhav Garg , Hui Guo , Nirav Ajmeri , Saikath Bhattacharya , Munindar P. Singh

In-app advertising closely relates to app revenue. Reckless ad integration could adversely impact app reliability and user experience, leading to loss of income. It is very challenging to balance the ad revenue and user experience for app…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Cuiyun Gao , Jichuan Zeng , David Lo , Xin Xia , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu

We present a novel summarization framework for reviews of products and services by selecting informative and concise text segments from the reviews. Our method consists of two major steps. First, we identify five frequently occurring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Trung V. Nguyen , Alice H. Oh

Millions of mobile apps have been available through various app markets. Although most app markets have enforced a number of automated or even manual mechanisms to vet each app before it is released to the market, thousands of low-quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yangyu Hu , Haoyu Wang , Tiantong Ji , Xusheng Xiao , Xiapu Luo , Peng Gao , Yao Guo

Sentiment analysis (SA) is commonly applied to digital textual data, revealing insight into opinions and feelings. Many systematic reviews have summarized existing work, but often overlook discussions of validity and scientific practices.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Laura E. M. Ayravainen , Joanne Hinds , Brittany I. Davidson

App store mining has proven to be a promising technique for requirements elicitation as companies can gain valuable knowledge to maintain and evolve existing apps. However, despite first advancements in using mining techniques for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Tahira Iqbal , Norbert Seyff , Daniel Mendez Fernández

Providing explanations in response to user reviews is a time-consuming and repetitive task for companies, as many reviews present similar issues requiring nearly identical responses. To improve efficiency, this paper proposes a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Martin Obaidi , Nicolas Voß , Hannah Deters , Jakob Droste , Marc Herrmann , Jannik Fischbach , Kurt Schneider

With the increasing proliferation of mobile applications in our everyday experiences, the concerns surrounding ethics have surged significantly. Users generally communicate their feedback, report issues, and suggest new functionalities in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Aakash Sorathiya , Gouri Ginde

The evaluation of machine-generated image captions poses an interesting yet persistent challenge. Effective evaluation measures must consider numerous dimensions of similarity, including semantic relevance, visual structure, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 David Chan , Suzanne Petryk , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , John Canny

In recent years, mobile applications have become indispensable tools for managing various aspects of life. From enhancing productivity to providing personalized entertainment, mobile apps have revolutionized people's daily routines. Despite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shashiwadana Nirmania , Garima Sharma , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Mojtaba Shahin

Google app market captures the school of thought of users via ratings and text reviews. The critique's viewpoint regarding an app is proportional to their satisfaction level. Consequently, this helps other users to gain insights before…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Sakshi Ranjan , Subhankar Mishra

Code comprehension and analysis of open-source project codebases is a task frequently performed by developers and researchers. However, existing tools that practitioners use for assistance with such tasks often require prior project setup,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Ahmed Adnan , Mushfiqur Rahman , Saad Sakib Noor , Kazi Sakib

With the continuous growth in the usage of Android apps, ensuring their security has become critically important. An increasing number of malicious apps adopt anti-analysis techniques to evade security measures. Although some research has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dewen Suo , Lei Xue , Runze Tan , Weihao Huang , Guozi Sun

Recent years have witnessed the growing demands for resolving numerous bug reports in software maintenance. Aiming to reduce the time testers/developers take in perusing bug reports, the task of bug report summarization has attracted a lot…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-02 He Jiang , Xiaochen Li , Zhilei Ren , Jifeng Xuan , Zhi Jin