Semantic Relation Based Expansion of Abbreviations

problem

• 标识符的质量对程序的编译和软件维护至关重要。
• 标识符包含缩写，降低了源代码的可读性和可维护性。

contribution

• in this paper ， proposes a generic and accurate approach to expand identifier abbreviations.

• abbreviations in the name of software entity e have great chance to find their full terms in names of software entities

• builds a knowledge graph to represent such entities and their relationships with e, and searches the graph for full terms.

introduce

• short abbreviation -> words within the same document or the same project. (but coarse-grained and ignore semantic relations)

• automatic and generic approach to expanding abbreviations in identifiers.

• The rationale is that semantically related entities are likely to share some common concepts and thus their names may contain some common terms.

Segmentation of Identifier Names

Knowledge Graph

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Approach