DescribeCtx: Context-Aware Description Synthesis for Sensitive Behaviors in Mobile Apps
Thu 12 May 2022 13:00 - 13:05 at ICSE room 3-odd hours - Apps and App Store Analysis 2 Chair(s): Julian Dolby
Wed 25 May 2022 13:50 - 13:55 at Room 301+302 - Papers 9: Requirements, Design and App Analysis Chair(s): Rick Kazman
While mobile applications (i.e., apps) are becoming capable of handling various needs from users, their increasing access to sensitive data raises privacy concerns. To address such concerns, existing techniques automatically identify explanatory sentences from app descriptions; however, many sensitive behaviors are not explained in the corresponding app descriptions. There also exist general techniques that translate code to sentences. However, these techniques lack the vocabulary to explain the uses of sensitive data and fail to consider the context (i.e., the app functionalities) of the sensitive behaviors. To address these limitations, we propose DescribeCtx, a context-aware description synthesis approach that trains a neural machine translation model using a large set of popular apps, and generates app-specific descriptions for sensitive behaviors. Specifically, DescribeCtx designs a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model that encodes three heterogeneous sources, i.e., vocabularies provided by privacy polices, behavior summary provided by the call graphs in code, and contextual information provided by GUI texts. Our evaluations on 1,292 Android apps show that, compared with existing baselines, the synthesized sentences of DescribeCtx achieve higher prediction accuracy and user ratings with respect to the reference sentences manually identified in the app descriptions.
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22:10 5mTalk | DescribeCtx: Context-Aware Description Synthesis for Sensitive Behaviors in Mobile Apps Technical Track Shao Yang Case Western Reserve University, Yuehan Wang Nanjing University, Yuan Yao Nanjing University, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, Yanfang Ye Case Western Reserve University, Xusheng Xiao Case Western Reserve University DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
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Thu 12 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
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13:00 5mTalk | DescribeCtx: Context-Aware Description Synthesis for Sensitive Behaviors in Mobile Apps Technical Track Shao Yang Case Western Reserve University, Yuehan Wang Nanjing University, Yuan Yao Nanjing University, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, Yanfang Ye Case Western Reserve University, Xusheng Xiao Case Western Reserve University DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
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13:15 5mTalk | Domain-Specific Analysis of Mobile App Reviews Using Keyword-Assisted Topic Models Technical Track Miroslav Tushev Amazon, Fahimeh Ebrahimi Louisiana State University, Anas "Nash" Mahmoud Louisiana State University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
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13:30 - 15:00 | Papers 9: Requirements, Design and App AnalysisSEIS - Software Engineering in Society / Technical Track / Journal-First Papers / NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results at Room 301+302 Chair(s): Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa | ||
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13:50 5mTalk | DescribeCtx: Context-Aware Description Synthesis for Sensitive Behaviors in Mobile Apps Technical Track Shao Yang Case Western Reserve University, Yuehan Wang Nanjing University, Yuan Yao Nanjing University, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, Yanfang Ye Case Western Reserve University, Xusheng Xiao Case Western Reserve University DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
13:55 5mTalk | JuCify: A Step Towards Android Code Unification for Enhanced Static Analysis Technical Track Jordan Samhi University of Luxembourg, Jun Gao University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Nadia Daoudi SnT, University of Luxembourg, Pierre Graux University of Luxembourg, Henri Hoyez , Xiaoyu Sun Monash University, Kevin Allix University of Luxembourg, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé SnT, University of Luxembourg, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
14:00 5mTalk | Difuzer: Uncovering Suspicious Hidden Sensitive Operations in Android Apps Technical Track Jordan Samhi University of Luxembourg, Li Li Monash University, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé SnT, University of Luxembourg, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
14:05 5mTalk | FeatCompare: Feature Comparison for Competing Mobile Apps Leveraging User Reviews Journal-First Papers Maram Assi Queen's University, Safwat Hassan Thompson Rivers University, Yuan Tian Queens University, Kingston, Canada, Ying Zou Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Link to publication Pre-print Media Attached |