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@inproceedings{DemeyerMSR2013,
address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
author = {Demeyer, Serge and Murgia, Alessandro and
Wyckmans, Kevin and Lamkanfi, Ahmed},
booktitle = {Proceedings {MSR}'13 (10th {IEEE} Working Conference
on Mining Software Repositories)},
note = {Acceptance ratio: 31/81 = 38.3\%},
pages = {353 -- 362},
publisher = {{IEEE} Press},
series = {MSR '13},
title = {Happy birthday! a trend analysis on past {MSR}
papers},
year = {2013},
abstract = {On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the MSR
conference, it is a worthwhile exercise to meditate
on the past, present and future of our research
discipline. Indeed, since the MSR community has
experienced a big influx of researchers bringing in
new ideas, state-of-the art technology and
contemporary research methods it is unclear what the
future might bring. In this paper, we report on a
text mining exercise applied on the complete corpus
of MSR papers to reflect on where we come from; where
we are now; and where we should be going. We address
issues like the trendy (and outdated) research
topics; the frequently (and less frequently) cited
cases; the popular (and emerging) mining
infrastructure; and finally the proclaimed actionable
information which we are deemed to uncover.},
annote = {internationalconference},
doi = {10.1109/MSR.2013.6624049},
isbn = {978-1-4673-2936-1},
}