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ASE 2021
Sun 14 - Sat 20 November 2021 Australia
Tue 16 Nov 2021 18:50 - 19:00 at Kangaroo - Testing I Chair(s): Xiaoyin Wang

Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging for sentences is a basic and widely-used Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique. People rely heavily on it to predict POS tags that serve as the base for many advanced NLP tasks, such as sentiment analysis, word sense disambiguation, and information retrieval. However, POS tagging tools could make wrong predictions, which bring consequent error propagation to the advanced tasks and even cause serious threats in critical application domains. In this paper, we propose to test POS tagging tools with Metamorphic Testing against some properties that they should follow. The preliminary exploration with two groups of Metamorphic Relations shows that our method can effectively reveal defects of three common POS tagging tools (i.e., spaCy, NLTK, and Flair) on handling fairly simple intra- and inter-sentence transformation regarding adverbial clause and sentence appending. This demonstrates the great potential of our method to deliver a systematic test and reveal the unaware issues, which may benefit the validation, repair, and improvement, for POS tagging tools.

Tue 16 Nov

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18:00 - 19:00
Testing IResearch Papers / NIER track / Industry Showcase at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Xiaoyin Wang University of Texas at San Antonio
18:00
20m
Talk
Testing Your Question Answering Software via Asking RecursivelyACM Distinguished Paper
Research Papers
Songqiang Chen School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Shuo Jin School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Xiaoyuan Xie School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China
18:20
20m
Talk
Improving Test Case Generation for REST APIs Through Hierarchical Clustering
Research Papers
Dimitri Stallenberg Delft University of Technology, Mitchell Olsthoorn Delft University of Technology, Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology
DOI Pre-print
18:40
10m
Talk
Access Control Tree for Testing and Learning
Industry Showcase
Davrondzhon Gafurov Norsk Helsenett SF, Margrete Sunde Grovan Norsk Helsenett SF, Margrete Sunde Grovan Norsk Helsenett SF
18:50
10m
Talk
Property-based Test for Part-of-Speech Tagging Tool
NIER track
Shuo Jin School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Songqiang Chen School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Xiaoyuan Xie School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China