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When would this bug get reported?
ICSM 2012: Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance: Riva Del Garda, Trento, Italy, 23-28 September 2012
  • Ferdian THUNG, Singapore Management University
  • David LO, Singapore Management University
  • Lingxiao JIANG, Singapore Management University
  • Lucia Lucia, Singapore Management University
  • Foyzur Rahman, University of California, Davis
  • Premkumar Devanbu, University of California, Davis
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2012
Abstract

Millions of people, including those in the software engineering communities have turned to microblogging services, such as Twitter, as a means to quickly disseminate information. A number of past studies by Treude et al., Storey, and Yuan et al. have shown that a wealth of interesting information is stored in these microblogs. However, microblogs also contain a large amount of noisy content that are less relevant to software developers in engineering software systems. In this work, we perform a preliminary study to investigate the feasibility of automatic classification of microblogs into two categories: relevant and irrelevant to engineering software systems. We extract features from the textual content of the microblogs and the titles of any URLs mentioned in the microblogs. These features are then used to learn a discriminative model used in classifying relevant and irrelevant microblogs. We show that our trained model can achieve a promising classification performance.

ISBN
9781467323130
Identifier
10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405302
Publisher
IEEE
City or Country
Piscataway, NJ
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Authors
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
http://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405302
Citation Information
Ferdian THUNG, David LO, Lingxiao JIANG, Lucia Lucia, et al.. "When would this bug get reported?" ICSM 2012: Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance: Riva Del Garda, Trento, Italy, 23-28 September 2012 (2012) p. 420 - 429
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