Topic modeling is used in information retrieval to infer the hidden themes in a collection of
documents and thus provides an automatic means to organize, understand and summarize …

Context Software startups are newly created companies with no operating history and fast in
producing cutting-edge technologies. These companies develop software under highly …

Refactoring is a widespread practice that helps developers to improve the maintainability
and readability of their code. However, there is a limited number of studies empirically …

Cross-Project Defect Prediction (CPDP) as a means to focus quality assurance of software
projects was under heavy investigation in recent years. However, within the current state-of …

Locating bugs is important, difficult, and expensive, particularly for large-scale systems. To
address this, natural language information retrieval techniques are increasingly being used …

The immense amounts of source code provide ample challenges and opportunities during
software development. To handle the size of code bases, developers commonly search for …

Information Retrieval (IR) methods, and in particular topic models, have recently been used
to support essential software engineering (SE) tasks, by enabling software textual retrieval …

Assessing the similarity between code components plays a pivotal role in a number of
Software Engineering (SE) tasks, such as clone detection, impact analysis, refactoring, etc …

To deal with post-release bugs, many software projects set up public bug repositories for
users all over the world to report bugs that they have encountered. Recently, researchers …

During the evolution of a software system, a large number of bug reports are submitted.
Locating the source code files that need to be fixed to resolve the bugs is a challenging …