GitRanking: A Ranking of GitHub Topics for Software Classification using Active Sampling. (arXiv:2205.09379v1 [cs.SE])

GitHub is the world's largest host of source code, with more than 150M
repositories. However, most of these repositories are not labeled or
inadequately so, making it harder for users to find relevant projects. There
have been various proposals for software application domain classification over
the past years. However, these approaches lack a well-defined taxonomy that is
hierarchical, grounded in a knowledge base, and free of irrelevant terms. This
work proposes GitRanking, a framework for creating a classification ranked into …

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