Natural Language Processing

Understanding Digits in Identifier Names: An Exploratory Study
Before any software maintenance can occur, developers must read the identifier names found in the code to be maintained. Thus, …
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An Ensemble Approach for Annotating Source Code Identifiers with Part-of-speech Tags
This paper presents an ensemble part-of-speech tagging approach for source code identifiers. Ensemble tagging is a technique that uses …
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An Empirical Investigation of How and Why Developers Rename Identifiers
Renaming is vital to software maintenance and evolution. Developers rename entities when their original names no longer fit their …
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