SIEVE: Helping Developers Sift Wheat from Chaff via Cross-Platform Analysis

Software developers have benefited from various sources of knowledge such as forums, question-and-answer sites, and social media platforms to help them in various tasks. Extracting software-related knowledge from different platforms involves many challenges. In this paper, we propose an approach to...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Sulistya, Agus, Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Sharma, Abhishek, Lo, David, Treude, Christoph
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 31.10.2018
Subjects
Digital media
Performance enhancement
Representations
Social networks
Software development
Software engineering
Wheat
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Summary:Software developers have benefited from various sources of knowledge such as forums, question-and-answer sites, and social media platforms to help them in various tasks. Extracting software-related knowledge from different platforms involves many challenges. In this paper, we propose an approach to improve the effectiveness of knowledge extraction tasks by performing cross-platform analysis. Our approach is based on transfer representation learning and word embeddings, leveraging information extracted from a source platform which contains rich domain-related content. The information extracted is then used to solve tasks in another platform (considered as target platform) with less domain-related contents. We first build a word embeddings model as a representation learned from the source platform, and use the model to improve the performance of knowledge extraction tasks in the target platform. We experiment with Software Engineering Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow as source platforms, and two different target platforms, i.e., Twitter and YouTube. Our experiments show that our approach improves performance of existing work for the tasks of identifying software-related tweets and helpful YouTube comments.
ISSN:2331-8422