Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

5-2019

Abstract

Witt is a tool that systematically and automatically categorizes software technologies using original information extraction algorithms applied to Stack Overflow and Wikipedia. Witt takes as input a term, such as "django", and returns one or more categories that describe it (e.g., "framework"), along with attributes that further qualify it (e.g., "web-application"). Our comparative evaluation of Witt against six independent taxonomy tools showed that, when applied to software terms, Witt has better coverage than alternative solutions, without a corresponding degradation in the number of spurious results. The information extracted by Witt is available through the Witt Web Application, which allows users to query and explore Witt's categorization of software technologies by both obtaining the category for a term, and all the terms in a given category. On-line Portal: https://cs.mcgill.ca/~swevo/witt-web Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPsp1M4Ua3w.

Keywords

Hypernym detection, Taxonomy tool, Web application

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-Companion): Montreal, 25-31 May: Proceedings

First Page

63

Last Page

66

ISBN

9781728117645

Identifier

10.1109/ICSE-Companion.2019.00039

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-Companion.2019.00039

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