Replication package for the paper "What do Developers Discuss about Code Comment Conventions"

<pre><code class="language-markdown"># RP-commenting-conventions-multiple-sources Replication Package for the paper "What do Developers Discuss about Code Comment Conventions?" ## Structure ``` Appendix.pdf RQ1/ LDA_input/ stackoverfow_raw_dataset.csv LDA_output/ Mallet/ output_csv/ docs-in-topics.csv topic-words.csv topics-in-docs.csv topics-metadata.csv output_html/ all_topics.html Docs/ Topics/ RQ2/ datasource_rawdata/ mailing_lists_selection_criteria.csv quora.csv stackoverflow.csv manual_analysis_output/ stackoverflow_quora_taxonomy.xlsx ``` ## Contents of the Replication Package --- - **Appendix.pdf**- Appendix of the paper containing supplement tables - **RQ1/** - contains the data used to answer RQ1 - **LDA_input/** - input data used for LDA analysis - `stackoverfow_raw_dataset.csv` - stackoverflow questions used to perform LDA analysis - **LDA_output/** - **Mallet/** - contains the LDA output generated by MALLET tool - **output_csv/** - `docs-in-topics.csv` - documents per topic - `topic-words.csv` - most relevant topic words - `topics-in-docs.csv` - topic probability per document - `topics-metadata.csv` - metadata per document and topic probability - **output_html/** - Browsable results of mallet output - `all_topics.html` - `Docs/` - `Topics/` - **RQ2/** - contains the data used to answer RQ2 - **datasource_rawdata/** - contains the raw data for each source - `mailing_lists_selection_criteria.csv` - criteria used to select mailing_lists. - `quora.csv` - contains the processed dataset (like removing HTML tags). To know more about the preprocessing steps, please refer to the reproducibility section in the paper. The data is preprocessed using [Makar](https://github.com/maethub/makar) tool. - `stackoverflow.csv` - contains the processed Stack Overflow dataset. To know more about the preprocessing steps, please refer to the reproducibility section in the paper. The data is preprocessed using [Makar](https://github.com/maethub/makar) tool. - **manual_analysis_output/** - `stackoverflow_quora_taxonomy.xlsx` - contains the classified dataset of Stack Overflow and quora and a description of taxonomy. - `Taxonomy` - contains the description of the first dimension and second dimension categories. Second dimension categories are further divided into levels, separated by `|` symbol. - `stackoverflow-posts` - the questions are labelled relevant or irrelevant and categorized into the first dimension and second dimension categories. - `quota-posts` - the questions are labelled relevant or irrelevant and categorized into the first dimension and second dimension categories. --- </code></pre>