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Enhancing Software Search with Semantic Information from Wikipedia

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Semantic Web and Web Science

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Abstract

Software is becoming ubiquitous, from desktop computers to smart phones, and has created significant impact on the quality of our everyday life. Sharing and reusing high-quality software can save tremendous amount of time and efforts that otherwise would need to be reinvented. The challenge is how to efficiently search through a potentially huge database of software and return the most relevant results. In this paper, we present a prototype of semantic software search engine that exploits the semantic information from Wikipedia, one of the largest online knowledge repositories as the result of collaborative intelligence. We propose a technique to replace the original concept space by an extended concept space extracted from Wikipedia to incorporate commonsense knowledge into software search. Experimental results show that this strategy can achieve better performance over traditional software search based on the original concept space.

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    http://www.wikipedia.org/

  2. 2.

    http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/

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    http://wikipedia-miner.cms.waikato.ac.nz/

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    http://mlpy.sourceforge.net/

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    http://lucene.apache.org/

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    http://dumps.wikimedia.org/

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    http://sourceforge.net/

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    http://mloss.org/software/

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    https://github.com/

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60905030). The authors are also grateful to Prof. Juanzi Li for her kind help.

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  1. Intelligent Computing Lab, Division of Informatics, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoli Ma & Bo Yuan

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  1. , Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Room 10-206, East main building, Beijing, 100084, China, People's Republic

    Juanzi Li

  2. , School of Comp. Sci. & Eng., Southeast University, Dongda Road 2, Nanjing, 211189, Jiangsu, China, People's Republic

    Guilin Qi

  3. Peking University, Inst. of Computer Science & Tech., North Zhongguancun Street 128, Beijing, 100871, China, People's Republic

    Dongyan Zhao

  4. L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, Appelstr. 4, Hannover, 30167, Germany

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  5. Tsinghua Campus H202B, Shenzhen City, 518055, China, People's Republic

    Hai-Tao Zheng

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Ma, X., Yuan, B. (2013). Enhancing Software Search with Semantic Information from Wikipedia. In: Li, J., Qi, G., Zhao, D., Nejdl, W., Zheng, HT. (eds) Semantic Web and Web Science. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6880-6_1

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