XSearch: A domain-specific cross-language relevant question retrieval tool

Bowen Xu, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia*, David Lo, Xuan Bach D. Le

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    Abstract

    During software development process, Chinese developers often seek solutions to the technical problems they encounter by searching relevant questions on Q&A sites. When developers fail to find solutions on Q&A sites in Chinese, they could translate their query and search on the English Q&A sites. However, Chinese developers who are non-native English speakers often are not comfortable to ask or search questions in English, as they do not know the proper translation of the Chinese technical words into the English technical words. Furthermore, the process of manually formulating cross-language queries and determining the importance of query words is a tedious and time-consuming process. For the purpose of helping Chinese developers take advantages of the rich knowledge base of the English version of Stack Overflow and simplify the retrieval process, we propose an automated cross-language relevant question retrieval tool (XSearch) to retrieve relevant English questions on Stack Overflow for a given Chinese question. This tool can address the increasing need for developer to solve technical problems by retrieving cross-language relevant Q&A resources.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationESEC/FSE 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
    EditorsAndrea Zisman, Eric Bodden, Wilhelm Schafer, Arie van Deursen
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
    Pages1009-1013
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Electronic)9781450351058
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 21 Aug 2017
    Event11th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2017 - Paderborn, Germany
    Duration: 4 Sept 20178 Sept 2017

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
    VolumePart F130154

    Conference

    Conference11th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2017
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityPaderborn
    Period4/09/178/09/17

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