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Intelligent Search Methods for Software Maintenance

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This paper describes a study of what we call intelligent search techniques as implemented in a software maintenance environment. The techniques studied include abbreviation concatenation and abbreviation expansion. We also describe rating algorithms used to prioritize the query results. To evaluate our approach, we present a series of experiments in which we compare our algorithms' ratings of results to ratings provided by software engineers.

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  1. School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada

    Huixiang Liu & Timothy C. Lethbridge

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Liu, H., Lethbridge, T.C. Intelligent Search Methods for Software Maintenance. Information Systems Frontiers 4, 409–423 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020839810474

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