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E Hill, ZP Fry, H Boyd, G Sridhara, Y Novikova… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - dl.acm.org

AMAP: automatically mining abbreviation expansions in programs to enhance software maintenance tools.

Build and Broaden 3.0 AND Program Evaluation

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When writing software, developers often employ abbreviations in identifier names. In fact, some abbreviations may never occur with the expanded word, or occur more often in the code. However, most existing program comprehension and search tools do little to address the problem of abbreviations, and therefore may miss meaningful pieces of code or relationships between software artifacts. In this paper, we present an automated approach to mining abbreviation expansions from source code to enhance software maintenance tools …

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