Classifying unstructured data into natural language text and technical information

Software repository data, for example in issue tracking systems, include natural language text and technical information, which includes anything from log files via code snippets to stack traces. However, data mining is often only interested in one of the two types e.g. in natural language text wh...

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Main Authors: Merten, Thorsten (Author) , Paech, Barbara (Author)
Format: Chapter/Article Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: 2014-05-31
In: Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Year: 2014, Pages: 300-303
DOI:10.1145/2597073.2597112
Online Access:Resolving-System, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2597073.2597112
Verlag, Volltext: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2597112
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Author Notes:Thorsten Merten, Bastian Mager, Simone Bürsner, Barbara Paech
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Summary:Software repository data, for example in issue tracking systems, include natural language text and technical information, which includes anything from log files via code snippets to stack traces. However, data mining is often only interested in one of the two types e.g. in natural language text when looking at text mining. Regardless of which type is being investigated, any techniques used have to deal with noise caused by fragments of the other type i.e. methods interested in natural language have to deal with technical fragments and vice versa. This paper proposes an approach to classify unstructured data, e.g. development documents, into natural language text and technical information using a mixture of text heuristics and agglomerative hierarchical clustering. The approach was evaluated using 225 manually annotated text passages from developer emails and issue tracker data. Using white space tokenization as a basis, the overall precision of the approach is 0.84 and the recall is 0.85.
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Physical Description:Online Resource
ISBN:9781450328630
DOI:10.1145/2597073.2597112