Research of a Semantic-based Approach to improve Software Component Reuse

In this paper, we propose a semantic-based approach to improve software component reuse. In the classification process, natural language processing and domain knowledge technologies are employed for program understanding down to code level, and Web services and Semantic Web technologies as well as Conceptual Graph are used to semantically describe/represent a component. In the retrieval process, a user query in natural language is translate into semantic representation formats in order to augment retrieval recall and precision by deploying the same semantic representation technologies on both the user query side and the component side.