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XSearch: A domain-specific cross-language relevant question retrieval tool
ESEC/FSE '17: Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering: Paderborn, Germany, September 4-8
  • Bowen XU, Singapore Management University
  • Zhenchang XING, Australian National University
  • Xin XIA, University of British Columbia
  • David LO, Singapore Management University
  • Xuan-Bach D. LE, Singapore Management University
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2017
Abstract

During software development process, Chinese developers often seek solutions to the technical problems they encounter by searching relevant questions on Q&A sites. When developers fail to find solutions on Q&A sites in Chinese, they could translate their query and search on the English Q&A sites. However, Chinese developers who are non-native English speakers often are not comfortable to ask or search questions in English, as they do not know the proper translation of the Chinese technical words into the English technical words. Furthermore, the process of manually formulating cross-language queries and determining the importance of query words is a tedious and time-consuming process. For the purpose of helping Chinese developers take advantages of the rich knowledge base of the English version of Stack Overflow and simplify the retrieval process, we propose an automated cross-language relevant question retrieval tool (XSearch) to retrieve relevant English questions on Stack Overflow for a given Chinese question. This tool can address the increasing need for developer to solve technical problems by retrieving cross-language relevant Q&A resources. Demo Tool Website: http://172.93.36.10:8080/XSearch Demo Video: https://goo.gl/h57sed

ISBN
9781450351058
Identifier
10.1145/3106237.3122820
Publisher
ACM
City or Country
New York
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/3106237.3122820
Citation Information
Bowen XU, Zhenchang XING, Xin XIA, David LO, et al.. "XSearch: A domain-specific cross-language relevant question retrieval tool" ESEC/FSE '17: Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering: Paderborn, Germany, September 4-8 (2017) p. 1009 - 1013
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_lo/158/