AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING DEVELOPER GOALS AND SYMPTOMS IN Q&A FORUMS TO HELP FORUM SEARCH AND MINING
| Author(s) | Senzer, Zachary | |
| Date Accessioned | 2017-09-12T15:30:52Z | |
| Date Available | 2017-09-12T15:30:52Z | |
| Publication Date | 2017-05 | |
| Abstract | When software developers need help with their development or maintenance task, they seek information from other developers using question and answer forums. Developers often search the forum by submitting queries, which results in a ranked listing of posts displayed as question title and excerpt from the question description. This thesis presents a technique to automatically extract the questioner’s softwarerelated goals and symptoms from the question description. We show how explicit identification of goal and symptom information can help developers determine relevance of search results. Classification of natural language text in forums could also be useful to improve forum mining techniques for other purposes. | en_US |
| Advisor | Lori Pollock, Ph.D. | |
| Program | computer science | |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/21641 | |
| Publisher | University of Delaware | en_US |
| Keywords | computer science, forum search, developer goals | en_US |
| Title | AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING DEVELOPER GOALS AND SYMPTOMS IN Q&A FORUMS TO HELP FORUM SEARCH AND MINING | en_US |
| Type | Thesis | en_US |