Learning to answer programming questions with software documentation through social context embedding

• Main Authors: Li, Jing, Sun, Aixin, Xing, Zhenchang
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Software Documentation; Community-based Question Answering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86193; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48306
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Official software documentation provides a comprehensive overview of software usages, but not on specific programming tasks or use cases. Often there is a mismatch between the documentation and a question on a specific programming task because of different wordings. We observe from Stack Overflow th...