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MSR 2021
Mon 17 - Wed 19 May 2021
co-located with ICSE 2021
Wed 19 May 2021 02:05 - 02:09 at MSR Room 2 - NLP Chair(s): Chunyang Chen

Stack Overflow is one of the most popular Programming Community-based Question Answering (PCQA) websites that has attracted more and more users in recent years. When users raise or inquire questions in Stack Overflow, providing related questions can help them solve problems. Although there are many approaches based on deep learning that can automatically predict the relatedness between questions, those approaches are limited since interaction information between two questions may be lost. In this paper, we adopt the deep learning technique, propose an Attention-based Sentence pair Interaction Model (ASIM) to predict the relatedness between questions on Stack Overflow automatically. We adopt the attention mechanism to capture the semantic interaction information between the questions. Besides, we have pre-trained and released word embeddings specific to the software engineering domain for this task, which may also help other related tasks. The experiment results demonstrate that ASIM has made significant improvement over the baseline approaches in Precision, Recall, and Micro-F1 evaluation metrics, achieving state-of-the-art performance in this task. Our model also performs well in the duplicate question detection task of AskUbuntu, which is a similar but different task, proving its generalization and robustness.

Wed 19 May

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02:00 - 02:50
NLPRegistered Reports / Technical Papers at MSR Room 2
Chair(s): Chunyang Chen Monash University
02:01
4m
Talk
Automatic Part-of-Speech Tagging for Security Vulnerability Descriptions
Technical Papers
Sofonias Yitagesu Tianjin University, Xiaowang Zhang Tianjin University, Zhiyong Feng Tianjin University, Xiaohong Li TianJin University, Zhenchang Xing Australian National University
Pre-print
02:05
4m
Talk
Attention-based model for predicting question relatedness on Stack Overflow
Technical Papers
Jiayan Pei South China University of Technology, Yimin Wu South China University of Technology, Research Institute of SCUT in Yangjiang, Zishan Qin South China University of Technology, Yao Cong South China University of Technology, Jingtao Guan Research Institute of SCUT in Yangjiang
Pre-print
02:09
4m
Talk
Characterising the Knowledge about Primitive Variables in Java Code Comments
Technical Papers
Mahfouth Alghamdi The University of Adelaide, Shinpei Hayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Takashi Kobayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Christoph Treude University of Adelaide
Pre-print
02:13
4m
Talk
Googling for Software Development: What Developers Search For and What They Find
Technical Papers
Pre-print Media Attached
02:17
3m
Talk
Evaluating Pre-Trained Models for User Feedback Analysis in Software Engineering: A Study on Classification of App-Reviews
Registered Reports
Mohammad Abdul Hadi University of British Columbia, Fatemeh Hendijani Fard University of British Columbia
Pre-print
02:20
3m
Talk
Cross-status Communication and Project Outcomes in OSS Developmentā€“A Language Style Matching Perspective
Registered Reports
Yisi Han Nanjing University, Zhendong Wang University of California, Irvine, Yang Feng State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Zhihong Zhao Nanjing Tech Unniversity, Yi Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Pre-print
02:23
27m
Live Q&A
Discussions and Q&A
Technical Papers


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