2017/09/07 by Gias Uddin, Uddin, Gias, Martin P. Robillard +1 · 1 voice
Computer Science · #68N01 #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #Software Engineering Research #Software Engineering Techniques and Practices #Web Data Mining and Analysis #cs.SE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1709.02396
openalex publication_date 2017/09/07 · arxiv published 2017/09/07 · arxiv updated 2017/09/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Developer forums contain opinions and information related to the usage of APIs. API names in forum posts are often not explicitly linked to their official resources. Automatic linking of an API mention to its official resources can be challenging for various reasons, such as, name overloading. We present a technique, ANACE, to automatically resolve API mentions in the textual contents of forum posts. Given a database of APIs, we first detect all words in a forum post that are potential references to an API. We then use a combination of heuristics and machine learning to eliminate false positives and to link true positives to the actual APIs and their resources.