problem

• 標識符的質(zhì)量對程序的編譯和軟件維護至關重要。
• 標識符包含縮寫，降低了源代碼的可讀性和可維護性。

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