Part-of-speech tagging of program identifiers for improved text-based software engineering tools

• Published in: 2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) pp. 3 - 12
• Main Authors: Gupta, Samir, Malik, Sana, Pollock, Lori, Vijay-Shanker, K.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.05.2013
• Subjects: Accuracy; comprehension; Context; identifiers; natural language processing; Natural languages; part-of-speech; Program understanding; Software; Software engineering; Syntactics; Tagging

To aid program comprehension, programmers choose identifiers for methods, classes, fields and other program elements primarily by following naming conventions in software. These software "naming conventions" follow systematic patterns which can convey deep natural language clues that can b...