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Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
Published in Proceedings | Yes |
Title | Supporting developers with natural language queries |
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Presentation Type | paper |
Item Subtype | Original Work |
Refereed | Yes |
Status | Published in final form |
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Page Range | 165 - 174 |
Event Title | 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering |
Event Type | conference |
Event Location | Cape Town, South Africa |
Event Start Date | May 2 - 2010 |
Event End Date | May 2 - 2010 |
Abstract Text | The feature list of modern IDEs is growing steadily and mastering these tools becomes more and more demanding, especially for novice programmers. Despite their remarkable capabilities, IDEs often still cannot directly answer the questions that arise during program comprehension tasks. Instead developers have to map their questions to multiple concrete queries that can be answered only by combining several tools and examining the output of each of them manually to distill an appropriate answer. Existing approaches have in common that they are either limited to a set of predefined, hardcoded questions, or that they require to learn a specific query language only suitable for that limited purpose. We present a framework to query for information about a software system using guided-input natural language resembling plain English. For that, we model data extracted by classical software analysis tools with an OWL ontology and use knowledge processing technologies from the Semantic Web to query it. We also present a case study that demonstrates how our framework can be used to answer queries about static source code information for program comprehension purposes. |
Free access at | Related URL |
Digital Object Identifier | 10.1145/1806799.1806827 |
Other Identification Number | merlin-id:73 |
PDF File | Download from ZORA |
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