Data Balancing Improves Self-Admitted Technical Debt Detection
@article{Sridharan2021DataBI, title={Data Balancing Improves Self-Admitted Technical Debt Detection}, author={Murali Sridharan and Mika M{\"a}ntyl{\"a} and Leevi Rantala and Ma{\"e}lick Claes}, journal={2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)}, year={2021}, pages={358-368} }
A high imbalance exists between technical debt and non-technical debt source code comments. Such imbalance affects Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) detection performance, and existing literature lacks empirical evidence on the choice of balancing technique. In this work, we evaluate the impact of multiple balancing techniques, including Data level, Classifier level, and Hybrid, for SATD detection in Within-Project and Cross-Project setup. Our results show that the Data level balancing…
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