Assisting Concept Location in Software Comprehension

Concept location, the problem of associating human oriented concepts with their counterpart solution domain concepts, is a fundamental problem that lies at the heart of software comprehension. Recent research has a ttempted to alleviate the impact of the concept location problem through the application of methods drawn from the Information Retrieval (IR) community. Here we present a new approach based on a complimentary IR method which also has a sou nd basis in cognitive theory. We compare our approach to related work thro ug an experiment and present our conclusions. . . .

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