A Soft Alignment Model for Bug Deduplication

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A Soft Alignment Model for Bug Deduplication. / Rodrigues, Irving Muller; Aloise, Daniel; Fernandes, Eraldo Rezende et al.
2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories: MSR 2020, Proceedings; Seoul, Republic of Korea 29-30 June 2020. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. p. 43-53.

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Rodrigues, IM, Aloise, D, Fernandes, ER & Dagenais, M 2020, A Soft Alignment Model for Bug Deduplication. in 2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories: MSR 2020, Proceedings; Seoul, Republic of Korea 29-30 June 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, New York, pp. 43-53, 17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2020, co-located with the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2020, Virtual, Online, Korea, Republic of, 29.06.20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3379597.3387470

APA

Rodrigues, I. M., Aloise, D., Fernandes, E. R., & Dagenais, M. (2020). A Soft Alignment Model for Bug Deduplication. In 2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories: MSR 2020, Proceedings; Seoul, Republic of Korea 29-30 June 2020 (pp. 43-53). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3379597.3387470

Vancouver

Rodrigues IM, Aloise D, Fernandes ER, Dagenais M. A Soft Alignment Model for Bug Deduplication. In 2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories: MSR 2020, Proceedings; Seoul, Republic of Korea 29-30 June 2020. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2020. p. 43-53 doi: 10.1145/3379597.3387470

Bibtex

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