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Using evolutionary algorithms to select text features for mining design rationale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2020

Miriam Lester ,
Miguel Guerrero  and
Janet Burge Open the ORCID record for Janet Burge [Opens in a new window]
Miriam Lester
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA
Miguel Guerrero
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Janet Burge*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
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Author for correspondence: Janet Burge, E-mail: jburge@coloradocollege.edu
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Abstract

At its heart, design is a decision-making process. These decisions, and the reasons for making them, comprise the design rationale (DR) for the designed artifact. If available, DR provides a comprehensive record of the reasoning behind the decisions made during the design. Unfortunately, while this information is potentially quite valuable, it is usually not explicitly captured. Instead, it is often buried in other design and development artifacts. In this paper, we study how to identify rationale from text documents, specifically software bug reports and design discussion transcripts. The method we examined is statistical text mining where a model is built to use document features to classify sentences. Choosing which features are most likely to be good predictors is important. We studied two evolutionary algorithms to optimize feature selection – ant colony optimization and genetic algorithms. We found that for many types of rationale, models built with an optimized feature set outperformed those built using all the document features.

Keywords

Ant colony optimizationdesign rationalefeature selectiongenetic algorithmstext mining
Type
Research Article
Information
AI EDAM , Volume 34 , Special Issue 2: Thematic Collection: Design Cognition and Computing , May 2020 , pp. 132 - 146
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2020

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