›› 2015, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (5): 1017-1035.doi: 10.1007/s11390-015-1578-2

Special Issue: Data Management and Data Mining; Software Systems

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TagCombine: Recommending Tags to Contents in Software Information Sites

Xin-Yu Wang1(王新宇), Xin Xia1*(夏鑫), Member, CCF, ACM, IEEE, David Lo2, Member, ACM, IEEE   

  1. 1 College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;
    2 School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore
  • Received:2015-03-20 Revised:2015-07-09 Online:2015-09-05 Published:2015-09-05
  • Contact: Xin Xia E-mail:xxia@zju.edu.cn
  • About author:Xin-Yu Wang received his Bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, in 2002 and 2007 respectively. He was a research assistant in Zhejiang University during 2002~2007. He is currently an associate professor in the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University. His research interests include software engineering, formal methods, and very large information systems.
  • Supported by:

    This research was partially supported by China Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology under Grant No. CKCEST-2014-1-5, the National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under Grant Nos. 2015BAH17F01 and 2013BAH01B01, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China.

Nowadays, software engineers use a variety of online media to search and become informed of new and interesting technologies, and to learn from and help one another. We refer to these kinds of online media which help software engineers improve their performance in software development, maintenance, and test processes as software information sites. In this paper, we propose TagCombine, an automatic tag recommendation method which analyzes objects in software information sites. TagCombine has three different components: 1) multi-label ranking component which considers tag recommendation as a multi-label learning problem; 2) similarity-based ranking component which recommends tags from similar objects; 3) tag-term based ranking component which considers the relationship between different terms and tags, and recommends tags after analyzing the terms in the objects. We evaluate TagCombine on four software information sites, Ask Different, Ask Ubuntu, Freecode, and Stack Overflow. On averaging across the four projects, TagCombine achieves recall@5 and recall@10 to 0.619 8 and 0.762 5 respectively, which improves TagRec proposed by Al-Kofahi et al. by 14.56% and 10.55% respectively, and the tag recommendation method proposed by Zangerle et al. by 12.08% and 8.16% respectively.

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