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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…

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App store analysis has become an important discipline in recent software engineering research. It empirically studies apps using information mined from their distribution platforms. Information provided by users, such as app reviews, are of…

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Enterprises are always on the lookout for tools that analyze end-users perspectives on their products. In particular, app reviews have been assessed as useful for guiding improvement efforts and software evolution, however, developers find…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Saurabh Malgaonkar , Chan Won Lee , Sherlock A. Licorish , Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu , Amjed Tahir

Systematic reviews, which entail the extraction of data from large numbers of scientific documents, are an ideal avenue for the application of machine learning. They are vital to many fields of science and philanthropy, but are very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Alexander Robertson , Jasmina Lazic , Theodora Tsouloufi , Louise Donnison , Karen Smyth

Context: Code reviews are essential for maintaining software quality, yet many human review comments suffer from issues such as redundancy, vagueness, or lack of constructiveness. These types of comments may slow down feedback and obscure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Semih Çağlar , Şükrü Eren Gökırmak , Eray Tüzün

Mobile app reviews are a large-scale data source for software improvements. A key task in this context is effectively extracting requirements from app reviews to analyze the users' needs and support the software's evolution. Recent studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Aakash Sorathiya , Gouri Ginde

This paper presents a novel framework that utilizes Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to understand user feedback on mobile applications. The framework allows software companies to drive their technology value stream based on…

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Mobile apps are becoming an integral part of people's daily life by providing various functionalities, such as messaging and gaming. App developers try their best to ensure user experience during app development and maintenance to improve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Weizhe Zhang , Wenchao Gu , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu

Explaining to users why some items are recommended is critical, as it can help users to make better decisions, increase their satisfaction, and gain their trust in recommender systems (RS). However, existing explainable RS usually consider…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Lei Li , Yongfeng Zhang , Li Chen

Modern software systems are becoming increasingly complex and opaque. The integration of explanations within software has shown the potential to address this opacity and can make the system more understandable to end-users. As a result,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Jakob Droste , Hannah Deters , Martin Obaidi , Kurt Schneider

Online reviews are an important source of feedback for understanding customers. In this study, we follow novel approaches that target this absence of actionable insights by classifying reviews as defect reports and requests for improvement.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Gino V. H. Mangnoesing , Maria Mihaela Trusca , Flavius Frasincar

User reviews published in mobile app repositories are essential for understanding user satisfaction and engagement within a specific market segment. Manual analysis of reviews is impractical due to the large data volume, and automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Quim Motger , Xavier Franch , Vincenzo Gervasi , Jordi Marco

Explanations are used in recommender systems for various reasons. Users have to be supported in making (high-quality) decisions more quickly. Developers of recommender systems want to convince users to purchase specific items. Users should…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-25 A. Felfernig , N. Tintarev , T. N. T. Trang , M. Stettinger

[Background:] Research on automated requirements elicitation and analysis of mobile apps employed lots of techniques and tools proposed by RE researchers and practitioners. However, little is known about the characteristics of these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chong Wang , Haoning Wu , Peng Liang , Maya Daneva , Marten van Sinderen

It is known that user-centered approaches to requirements engineering in general lead to a better suited product for the end-users. LLM4RE provides promising approaches to support the requirements elicitation process (e.g. classification of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Cedric Wellhausen , Laura Reinhardt , Kurt Schneider

App store reviews provide a constant flow of real user feedback that can help improve software requirements. However, these reviews are often messy, informal, and difficult to analyze manually at scale. Although automated techniques exist,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shadman Sakib , Oishy Fatema Akhand , Tasnia Tasneem , Shohel Ahmed

An important task for a recommender system to provide interpretable explanations for the user. This is important for the credibility of the system. Current interpretable recommender systems tend to focus on certain features known to be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Sixun Ouyang , Aonghus Lawlor , Felipe Costa , Peter Dolog

Context: Requirements prioritization is a challenging problem that is aimed to deliver the most suitable subset from a pool of candidate requirements. The problem is NP-hard when formulated as an optimization problem. Feedback from end…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Aurek Chattopadhyay , Nan Niu , Hui Liu , Jianzhang Zhang

Mobile apps are one of the building blocks of the mobile digital economy. A differentiating feature of mobile apps to traditional enterprise software is online reviews, which are available on app marketplaces and represent a valuable source…

Applications · Statistics 2018-02-20 Shawn Mankad , Shengli Hu , Anandasivam Gopal

As academic literature proliferates, traditional review methods are increasingly challenged by the sheer volume and diversity of available research. This article presents a study that aims to address these challenges by enhancing the…