SLE 2008 paper:
The Java Programmer’s Phrase Book

Einar W. Høst, Bjarte M. Østvold

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00434-6_20
T5E: Empirical Evaluation
- It builds an automatically generated phrase book from a large corpus of Java programs, relying on empirical analysis of real-world usage.
T5B: Language Description Analysis
- It analyses the structure and ‘semantics’ of method-name phrases, treating identifier naming as a describable language.
T2B: Evolution
- The motivation includes supporting developers as code and naming conventions evolve (e.g., guiding/refactoring names).

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