Automatic API recommendation has been studied for years. There are two orthogonal lines
of approaches for this task, ie, information-retrieval-based (IR-based) and neural-based …

Artificial intelligence has already proven to be a powerful tool to automate and improve how
we deal with software development processes. The application of artificial intelligence to …

In information retrieval, relevance is perceived as a multidimensional and dynamic concept
influenced by user, task, and domain factors. Relying on this perspective, researchers have …

Modeling is requiring increasingly larger efforts while becoming indispensable given the
complexity of the problems we are solving. Modelers face high cognitive load to understand …

Software developers often resort to Stack Overflow (SO) to fill their programming needs.
Given the abundance of relevant posts, navigating them and comparing different solutions is …

Developers constantly learn new APIs, but often lack necessary information from
documentation, resorting instead to popular question-and-answer platforms such as Stack …

Developers often need to use appropriate APIs to program efficiently, but it is usually a
difficult task to identify the exact one they need from a vast list of candidates. To ease the …

Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques have shown more and more promising results
in fixing real-world bugs. Despite the effectiveness, APR techniques still face an overfitting …

Stack Overflow (SO) is becoming an indispensable part of modern software development
workflow. However, given the limited time, attention, and memory capacity of programmers …

The online technical Q&A site Stack Overflow (SO) is popular among developers to support
their coding and diverse development needs. To address shortcomings in API official …