Document identification by shallow semantic analysis

Authors: Bouchachia, A., Mittermeir, R.T. and Pozewaunig, H.

Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volume: 1959

Pages: 190-202

eISSN: 1611-3349

ISSN: 0302-9743

DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45399-7_16

Abstract:

Identifying a matching component is a recurring problem in software engineering, specifically in software reuse. Properly generalized, it can be seen as an information retrieval problem. In the context of defining the architecture of a comprehensive software archive, we are designing a two-level retrieval structure. In this paper we report on the first level, a quick search facility based on analyzing texts written in natural language. Based on textual and structural properties of the documents contained in the repository, the universe is reduced to a moderately sized set of candidates to be further analyzed by more focussed mechanisms.

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