Loyola University Maryland - Hauber Research Presentation

Vocabulary Normalization and its Effect on Concept Location
   

Student researchers in Loyola's Computer Science Department have been productive this summer. Two students in the Hauber research program will present their findings on August 10th at noon. Christopher Uehlinger (2nd from left in the photo) and David Christo (far right) will present a talk entitled "Vocabulary Normalization and its Effect on Concept Location." Dave Binkley (far left) Dawn Lawrie (far right) are their faculty advisors.

Concept location is the process of finding where a particular feature is implemented in a program's source code. Automated concept location can help a maintainer identify the parts of the source code that have to be modified with respect to given concepts. Concepts typically appear as nouns, verbs, or short clauses in project requirements and other documentation and variables, classes, or methods in the source code. Often, identifiers in the source code do not match the words used to describe corresponding features in the documentation. Because of this, the vocabulary used in the source code and that used in the documentation must be normalized. The student researchers are working on a normalization tool and evaluating its effectiveness.

Details
Date: August 10
Time: 12 Noon
Place: Knott Hall, Evergreen Campus, Lecture Hall B03

A light buffet lunch is server prior to the talk.

Further information about concept location

The Advanced Technology Forum is sponsored by the Loyola University Maryland Graduate Programs in Computer Science and Software Engineering. Contact Lewis Berman, (410) 617-2587, liberman@loyola.edu.