To improve software productivity, when constructing new software systems, programmers
often reuse existing libraries or frameworks by invoking methods provided in their APIs …

Programmers regularly use search as part of the development process, attempting to identify
an appropriate API for a problem, seeking more information about an API, and seeking …

Function precedence protocols define ordering relations among function calls in a program.
In some instances, precedence protocols are well-understood (eg, a call to …

In software maintenance and evolution, it is common that developers want to apply a change
to a number of similar places. Due to the size and complexity of the code base, it is …

To help programmers find proper API methods and learn API usages, researchers have
proposed various code search engines. Given an API of interest, a code search engine can …

This paper presents a tool Altair that automatically generates API function cross-references,
which emphasizes reliable structural measures and does not depend on specific client code …

This paper investigates the use of several lightly supervised and data-driven approaches to
Mandarin broadcast news transcription. First, with a consideration of the special structural …

Most reuse libraries come with few source-code examples that demonstrate how the library
at hand should be used. We have developed a source-code recommendation approach for …

API libraries are becoming increasingly popular in modern software industries because
these libraries provide various methods and classes for reuse. However, as pointed out by …

The amount of data kept in computer files is growing at a phenomenal rate. It is estimated
that the amount of data in the world is doubling every 20 months [otIC98]. At the same time …