Different studies show that programmers are more interested in finding definitions of functions and their uses than variables, statements, or arbitrary code fragments [30, 29, 31]. Therefore, programmers require support in finding relevant functions and determining how those functions are used. Unfortunately, existing code search engines do not provide enough of this support to developers, thus...

In text mining framework, data-driven indices are used as importance indices of words and phrases. Although the values of these indices are influenced by usages of terms, many conventional emergent term detection methods did not treat these indices explicitly. In order to detect research keys in academic researches, we propose a method based on temporal patterns of technical terms by using seve...

Le terme ekphrasis peut recouvrir des sens differents, dependant en particulier du champ d’etudes au sein duquel ce procede est envisage. Des lors, avant d’entrer dans le cœur de dossier, il nous a semble opportun preciser lecteur notre propos et definir que entendions ici par « ekphrasis ». Nous cloturerons cette exploration une breve presentation differentes contributions regroupees volume. C...