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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.140
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-50232
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2015/5023/
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Greenberg, Michael ; Fisher, Kathleen ; Walker, David

Tracking the Flow of Ideas through the Programming Languages Literature

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Abstract

How have conferences like ICFP, OOPSLA, PLDI, and POPL evolved over the last 20 years? Did generalizing the Call for Papers for OOPSLA in 2007 or changing the name of the umbrella conference to SPLASH in 2010 have any effect on the kinds of papers published there? How do POPL and PLDI papers compare, topic-wise? Is there related work that I am missing? Have the ideas in O'Hearn's classic paper on separation logic shifted the kinds of papers that appear in POPL? Does a proposed program committee cover the range of submissions expected for the conference? If we had better tools for analyzing the programming language literature, we might be able to answer these questions and others like them in a data-driven way. In this paper, we explore how topic modeling, a branch of machine learning, might help the programming language community better understand our literature.

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@InProceedings{greenberg_et_al:LIPIcs:2015:5023,
  author =	{Michael Greenberg and Kathleen Fisher and David Walker},
  title =	{{Tracking the Flow of Ideas through the Programming Languages Literature}},
  booktitle =	{1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)},
  pages =	{140--155},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-80-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{32},
  editor =	{Thomas Ball and Rastislav Bodik and Shriram Krishnamurthi and Benjamin S. Lerner and Greg Morrisett},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5023},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-50232},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.140},
  annote =	{Keywords: programming languages literature, topic models, irony}
}

Keywords: programming languages literature, topic models, irony
Collection: 1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)
Issue Date: 2015
Date of publication: 30.04.2015

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