Automatically Categorizing Software Technologies

• Published in: IEEE transactions on software engineering Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 20 - 32
• Main Authors: Nassif, Mathieu, Treude, Christoph, Robillard, Martin P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.01.2020; IEEE Computer Society
• Subjects: Applications programs; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; information retrieval; Internet; natural language processing; Normalizing; Software; tagging; Taxonomy; Technology assessment; Wikipedia

Informal language and the absence of a standard taxonomy for software technologies make it difficult to reliably analyze technology trends on discussion forums and other on-line venues. We propose an automated approach called Witt for the categorization of software technologies (an expanded version...