This paper presents an ensemble part-of-speech tagging approach for source code
identifiers. Ensemble tagging is a technique that uses machine-learning and the output from …

In this paper, we study the problem of part-of-speech (POS) tagging for security vulnerability
descriptions (SVD). In contrast to newswire articles, SVD often contains a high-level natural …

Traceability approves trace links among software artifacts based on whether two artifacts are
related by system functionalities. The traces are valuable for software development, but are …

Background. Software effort can be measured by story point [35]. Story point estimation is
important in software projects' planning. Current approaches for automatically estimating …

Security practitioners routinely use static analysis to detect security problems and privacy
violations in Android apps. The soundness of these analyses depends on how the platform …

Stack Overflow is a very popular programming question and answer community. Some
questions become hot, and receive high views, which are of widespread concern to …

Developers relax restrictions on a type to reuse methods with other types. While type casts
are prevalent, in weakly typed languages such as C++, they are also extremely permissive …

In recent times, the applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP) models have
inspired numerous researchers to propose various automated Software Engineering (SE) …

The increasing complexity of modern software poses significant challenges for maintenance.
For instance, the Chromium browser, an open-source version of Chrome, consists of 27 …

A considerable part of the source code is identifier names--unique lexical tokens that
provide information about entities, and entity interactions, within the code. Identifier names …