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Thu 13 Oct 2022 10:40 - 10:50 at Gold A - Technical Session 24 - Human Aspects Chair(s): Silvia Abrahão

The logic behind design decisions, called design rationale, is very valuable. In the past, researchers have tried to automatically extract and exploit this information, but prior techniques are only applicable to specific contexts and there is insufficient progress on an end-to-end rationale information extraction pipeline. Here we outline a path towards such a pipeline that leverages several Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Our proposed context-independent approach, called Kantara, produces a knowledge graph representation of decisions and of their rationales, which considers their historical evolution and traceability. We also propose inconsistency checking mechanisms to ensure the correctness of the extracted information and the coherence of the development process. We conducted a preliminary evaluation of our proposed approach on a small example sourced from the Linux Kernel, which shows promising results.

Thu 13 Oct

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10:00 - 12:00
Technical Session 24 - Human AspectsResearch Papers / Journal-first Papers / NIER Track at Gold A
Chair(s): Silvia Abrahão Universitat Politècnica de València
10:00
20m
Research paper
Constructing a System Knowledge Graph of User Tasks and Failures from Bug Reports to Support Soap Opera Testing
Research Papers
Yanqi Su Australian National University, Zheming Han , Zhenchang Xing Australian National University, Xin Xia Huawei Software Engineering Application Technology Lab, Xiwei (Sherry) Xu CSIRO Data61, Liming Zhu CSIRO’s Data61; UNSW, Qinghua Lu CSIRO’s Data61
10:20
20m
Research paper
Data Augmentation for Improving Emotion Recognition in Software Engineering Communication
Research Papers
Mia Mohammad Imran Virginia Commonwealth University, Yashasvi Jain Drexel University, Preetha Chatterjee Drexel University, USA, Kostadin Damevski Virginia Commonwealth University
Pre-print
10:40
10m
Vision and Emerging Results
End-to-End Rationale Reconstruction
NIER Track
Mouna Dhaouadi University of Montreal, Bentley Oakes Université de Montréal, Michalis Famelis Université de Montréal
Pre-print
10:50
20m
Paper
Towards digitalization of requirements: Generating context-sensitive user stories from diverse specifications
Journal-first Papers
Padmalata Nistala Tata Consultancy Services Research, Asha Rajbhoj TCS Research, Vinay Kulkarni Tata Consultancy Services Research, Shivani Soni TCS Research, Kesav Vithal Nori IIIT Hyderabad, Raghu Reddy IIT Hyderabad
Link to publication DOI
11:10
20m
Paper
Which neural network makes more explainable decisions? An approach towards measuring explainabilityVirtual
Journal-first Papers
Mengdi Zhang Singapore Management University, Singapore, Jun Sun Singapore Management University, Jingyi Wang Zhejiang University
Link to publication DOI
11:30
20m
Paper
Automatically Identifying the Quality of Developer Chats for Post Hoc UseVirtual
Journal-first Papers
Preetha Chatterjee Drexel University, USA, Kostadin Damevski Virginia Commonwealth University, Nicholas A. Kraft UserVoice, Lori Pollock University of Delaware
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