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COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Building Systematic Reviews Using Automatic Text Classification Techniques
The amount of information in medical publications continues to increase at a tremendous rate. Systematic reviews help to process this growing body of information. They are fundame...
Oana Frunza, Diana Inkpen, Stan Matwin
TSE
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
How Reliable Are Systematic Reviews in Empirical Software Engineering?
BACKGROUND – the systematic review is becoming a more commonly employed research instrument in empirical software engineering. Before undue reliance is placed on the outcomes of...
Stephen G. MacDonell, Martin J. Shepperd, Barbara ...
RE
2008
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Requirements Prioritization Based on Benefit and Cost Prediction: An Agenda for Future Research
In early phases of the software cycle, requirements prioritization necessarily relies on the specified requirements and on predictions of benefit and cost of individual requiremen...
Andrea Herrmann, Maya Daneva
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Semi-automated screening of biomedical citations for systematic reviews
Background: Systematic reviews address a specific clinical question by unbiasedly assessing and analyzing the pertinent literature. Citation screening is a time-consuming and crit...
Byron C. Wallace, Thomas A. Trikalinos, Joseph Lau...
VAMOS
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Preliminary Review on the Application of Feature Diagrams in Practice
Abstract--For two decades, feature diagrams have been intensively studied as a means to specify variability and pilot configuration in software product line engineering. Surprising...
Arnaud Hubaux, Andreas Classen, Marcílio Me...
ESEM
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Empirical evaluations of regression test selection techniques: a systematic review
Regression testing is the verification that previously functioning software remains after a change. In this paper we report on a systematic review of empirical evaluations of regr...
Emelie Engström, Mats Skoglund, Per Runeson
ESEM
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Strength of evidence in systematic reviews in software engineering
Systematic reviews are only as good as the evidence they are based on. It is important, therefore, that users of systematic reviews know how much confidence they can place in the ...
Tore Dybå, Torgeir Dingsøyr
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Applying Systematic Reviews to Diverse Study Types: An Experience Report
Systematic reviews are one of the key building blocks of evidence-based software engineering. Current guidelines for such reviews are, for a large part, based on standard meta-ana...
Tore Dybå, Torgeir Dingsøyr, Geir Kje...
KDD
2010
ACM
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13 years 6 months ago
Active learning for biomedical citation screening
Active learning (AL) is an increasingly popular strategy for mitigating the amount of labeled data required to train classifiers, thereby reducing annotator effort. We describe ...
Byron C. Wallace, Kevin Small, Carla E. Brodley, T...