Lee, Wai Keat and Su, Moon Ting (2021) Mining stack overflow for API class recommendation using DOC2VEC and LDA. IET Software, 15 (5). pp. 308-322. ISSN 1751-8806, DOI https://doi.org/10.1049/sfw2.12023.
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To address the lexical gaps between natural language (NL) queries and Application Programming Interface (API) documentations, and between NL queries and programme code, this study developed a novel approach for recommending Java API classes that are relevant to the program ming tasks described in NL queries. A Doc2Vec model was trained using question titles mined from Stack Overflow. The model was used to find question titles that are semantically similar to a query. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modelling was applied on the Java API classes (extracted from code snippets found in the accepted answers of these similar questions) to extract a single topic comprising of the Top-10 Java API classes that are relevant to the query. The benchmarking of the proposed approach against state-of-the-art approaches, RACK and NLP2API, by using four performance metrics show that it is possible to produce comparable API recommendation results using a less complex approach that makes use of some basic machine learning models, in particular, Doc2Vec and LDA. The approach was implemented in a Java API class recommender with an Eclipse IDE's plug-in serving as the front-end.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Application Programming Interface (API); Stack Overflow; Natural language (NL) queries |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2022 05:05 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2022 05:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/26247 |
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