Part of Speech Tagging Java Method Names

• Published in: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) pp. 483 - 487
• Main Authors: Olney, Wyatt, Hill, Emily, Thurber, Chris, Lemma, Bezalem
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2016
• Subjects: Computer bugs; Gold; Java; Natural languages; Speech; Tagging; Twitter

Numerous software engineering tools for evolution and comprehension, including code search, comment generation, and analyzing bug reports, make use of part-of-speech (POS) information. However, many POS taggers are developed for, and trained on, natural language. In this paper, we investigate the ac...