Does deep learning improve the performance of duplicate bug report detection? An empirical study

• Main Authors: JIANG, Yuan, SU, Xiaohong, TREUDE, Christoph, SHANG, Chao, WANG, Tiantian
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Duplicate bug report detection; Deep learning; Information retrieval; Similarity measure; Realistic evaluation; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8785; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9788/viewcontent/yuanjiang23.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Do Deep Learning (DL) techniques actually help to improve the performance of duplicate bug report detection? Prior studies suggest that they do, if the duplicate bug report detection task is treated as a binary classification problem. However, in realistic scenarios, the task is often viewed as a ra...