Title
SIEVE: Helping developers sift wheat from chaff via cross-platform analysis
Abstract
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 embedding, 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 content. We first build a word embedding 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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s10664-019-09775-w
Empirical Software Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Word embedding, Transfer representation learning, Software engineering
Data mining,Scale-invariant feature transform,Social media,Information retrieval,Computer science,Software,Knowledge extraction,Cross-platform,Word embedding,Sieve,Feature learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
1
1382-3256
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
15
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Agus Sulistya120.37
Gede Artha Azriadi Prana2151.55
Abhishek Sharma3414.09
David Lo45346259.67
Christoph Treude587666.91