Mining Eclipse Developer Contributions via Author-Topic Models

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Title	Mining Eclipse Developer Contributions via Author-Topic Models
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2007
Authors	Linstead, E, Rigor, P, Bajracharya, S, Lopes, C, Baldi, P
Secondary Title	Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'07:ICSE Workshops 2007)
Pagination	30 - 30
Publisher	IEEE
Place Published	Minneapolis, MN, USA
ISBN Number	0-7695-2950-X
Keywords	contributions, developers, eclipse, expertise, mining challenge, msr challenge, source code, topics
Abstract	We present the results of applying statistical author-topic models to a subset of the Eclipse 3.0 source code consisting of 2,119 source files and 700,000 lines of code from 59 developers. This technique provides an intuitive and automated framework with which to mine developer contributions and competencies from a given code base while simultaneously extracting software function in the form of topics. In addition to serving as a convenient summary for program function and developer activities, our study shows that topic models provide a meaningful, effective, and statistical basis for developer similarity analysis.
DOI	10.1109/MSR.2007.20
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