Towards a Benchmark and Automatic Calibration for IR-Based Concept Location

Concept location is an essential task during software maintenance and in particular program comprehension activities. One of the approaches to this task is the based on leveraging the lexical information found in the source code by means of Information ...

The article addresses the problem of concept location in source code by proposing an approach that combines Formal Concept Analysis and Information Retrieval. In the proposed approach, Latent Semantic Indexing, an advanced Information Retrieval approach,...

Although using domain specific knowledge sources for information retrieval yields more accurate results compared to pure keyword-based methods, more improvements can be achieved by considering both relations between concepts in an ontology and also their ...