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Documents written in natural languages constitute a major part of the software engineering lifecycle artifacts. Especially during software maintenance or reverse engineering, semantic information conveyed in these documents can provide important knowledge for the software engineer. In this paper, we present a text mining system capable of populating a software ontology with information detected in documents.
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Witte, R., Li, Q., Zhang, Y., Rilling, J. (2007). Ontological Text Mining of Software Documents. In: Kedad, Z., Lammari, N., Métais, E., Meziane, F., Rezgui, Y. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4592. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73351-5_15
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