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SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
PRES: a score metric for evaluating recall-oriented information retrieval applications
Information retrieval (IR) evaluation scores are generally designed to measure the effectiveness with which relevant documents are identified and retrieved. Many scores have been ...
Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones
SIGSOFT
2001
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
An architecture for flexible, evolvable process-driven user-guidance environments
Complex toolsets can be difficult to use. User interfaces can help by guiding users through the alternative choices that might be possible at any given time, but this tends to loc...
Timothy J. Sliski, Matthew P. Billmers, Lori A. Cl...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Designing for discovery: opening the hood for open-source end user tinkering
According to the Free Software Movement, the user ought to have "the freedoms to make changes, and to publish improved versions" and "to study how the program works...
Gifford Cheung, Parmit Chilana, Shaun K. Kane, Bra...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
What's hot and what's not: Windowed developer topic analysis
As development on a software project progresses, developers shift their focus between different topics and tasks many times. Managers and newcomer developers often seek ways of un...
Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt
ICSM
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Understanding the rationale for updating a function's comment
Up-to-date comments are critical for the successful evolution of a software application. When modifying a function, developers may update the comment associated with the function ...
Haroon Malik, Istehad Chowdhury, Hsiao-Ming Tsou, ...