Mining Structured Data in Natural Language Artifacts with Island Parsing

Alberto Bacchelli, Andrea Mocci, Anthony Cleve, Michele Lanza

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Résumé

Software repositories typically store data composed of structured and unstructured parts. Researchers mine this data to empirically validate research ideas and to support practitioners' activities. Structured data (e.g., source code) has a formal syntax and is straightforward to analyze; unstructured data (e.g., documentation) is a mix of natural language, noise, and snippets of structured data, and it is harder to analyze. Especially the structured content (e.g., code snippets) in unstructured data contains valuable information. Researchers have proposed several approaches to recognize, extract, and analyze structured data embedded in natural language. We analyze these approaches and investigate their drawbacks. Subsequently, we present two novel methods, based on scannerless generalized LR (SGLR) and Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs), to address these drawbacks and to mine structured fragments within unstructured data. We validate and compare these approaches on development emails and Stack Overflow posts with JAVA code fragments. Both approaches achieve high precision and recall values, but the PEG-based one achieves better computational performances and simplicity in engineering.

langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)31-55
Nombre de pages25
journalScience of Computer Programming
Volume150
Les DOIs
Etat de la publicationPublié - 15 déc. 2017

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