On Integrating Orthogonal Information Retrieval Methods to Improve Traceability Link Recovery - Online Appendix

This web page is a companion to our 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'11) submission entitled "On Integrating Orthogonal Information Retrieval Methods to Improve Traceability Link Recovery."

Gethers, M., Oliveto, R., Poshyvanyk, D., and De Lucia, A., "On Integrating Orthogonal Information Retrieval Methods to Improve Traceability Link Recovery", in Proc. of 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'11), Williamsburg, VA, September 25 – 30, 2011, pp. 133-142 (28% acceptance rate) [pdf][slides]

Data


 Term-by-Document Matrix Oracle
EasyClinic-ENG
EasyClinic-ENG-matrix.xls
EasyClinic-oracle.txt
eTour-ENG
eTour-ENG-matrix.xls
eTour-oracle.txt
EasyClinic-ITA
EasyClinic-ITA-matrix.xls
EasyClinic-oracle.txt
eTour-ITA
eTour-ITA-matrix.xls
eTour-oracle.txt
EAnci
EAnci-matrix.xls
EAnci-oracle.txt
SMOS
SMOS-matrix.xls
SMOS-oracle.txt

Results

  • Average precision results for combinations of all Information Retrieval techniques and all software systems.

  • Principal Component Analysis results evaluating all Information Retrieval techniques on all software systems.

  • Overlap results for combinations of all Information Retrieval techniques and all software systems.

  • Analysis of lambda results for all software systems.

Main Collaborating Institutions

Participants

  • Malcom Gethers

    E-mail:   
    Affiliation: College of William & Mary, USA

  • Rocco Oliveto

    E-mail:   
    Affiliation: University of Salerno, Italy

  • Denys Poshyvanyk

    E-mail:   
    Affiliation: College of William & Mary, USA

  • Andrea De Lucia

    E-mail:   
    Affiliation: University of Salerno, Italy


We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the NSF on this research project.