The language of comments in computer software: A sublanguage of English

Lexical ambiguity and information retrieval

Robert Krovetz, W. Bruce Croft · ACM Transactions on Information Systems · 1992 · 407 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics +13

Program understanding and the concept assignment problem

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Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +7

Recognizing a program's design: a graph-parsing approach

Charles Rich · IEEE Software · 1990 · 202 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation +15

Automated support for legacy code understanding

Jim Q. Ning, A. Engberts, W. Kozaczynski · Communications of the ACM · 1994 · 140 citations

Education, Computer Science, Decision Support Systems +4

Proximal nodes

Gonzalo Navarro, Ricardo Baeza‐Yates · ACM Transactions on Information Systems · 1997 · 139 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Data Structures +16