Characterizing and Classifying Developer Forum Posts with their Intentions

arXiv:2312.14279v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: With the rapid growth of the developer community, the amount of posts on online technical forums has been growing rapidly, which poses difficulties for users to filter useful posts and find important information. Tags provide a concise feature dimension for users to locate their interested posts and for search engines to index the most relevant posts according to the queries. However, most tags are only focused on the technical perspective (e.g., program language, platform, tool). …

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