problem
- 标识符的质量对程序的编译和软件维护至关重要。
- 标识符包含缩写，降低了源代码的可读性和可维护性。
contribution
in this paper ， proposes a generic and accurate approach to expand identifier abbreviations.
abbreviations in the name of software entity e have great chance to find their full terms in names of software entities
builds a knowledge graph to represent such entities and their relationships with e, and searches the graph for full terms.
introduce
short abbreviation -> words within the same document or the same project. (but coarse-grained and ignore semantic relations)
automatic and generic approach to expanding abbreviations in identifiers.
The rationale is that semantically related entities are likely to share some common concepts and thus their names may contain some common terms.
Segmentation of Identifier Names
Knowledge Graph
Approach
