Semantic text similarity plays an important role in software engineering
tasks in which engineers are requested to clarify the semantics of descriptive
labels (e.g., business terms, table column names) that are often consists of
too short or too generic words and appears in their IT systems. We formulate
this type of problem as a task of matching descriptive labels to glossary
descriptions. We then propose a framework to leverage an existing semantic text
similarity measurement (STS) and augment it using semantic label enrichment and
set-based collective contextualization where the former is a method to retrieve
sentences relevant to a given label and the latter is a method to compute
similarity between two contexts each of which is derived from a set of texts
(e.g., column names in the same table). We performed an experiment on two
datasets derived from publicly available data sources. The result indicated
that the proposed methods helped the underlying STS correctly match more
descriptive labels with the descriptions.

语义文本相似性在软件工程中具有重要作用，在工程师需要澄清描述性标签（例如，业务术语、表列名）的语义的任务中，这些标签通常由过于简短或过于通用的词组成，并在其信息技术系统中出现。我们将这种问题定义为将描述性标签与词汇表描述匹配的任务。然后，我们提出了一个框架，利用现有的语义文本相似性测量（STS），并使用语义标签增强和基于集合的上下文化来增强它，其中前者是一种检索与给定标签相关的句子的方法，而后者是一种计算两个上下文之间相似度的方法，其中每个上下文均来自一组文本（例如，同一表中的列名）。我们对两个由公开可用数据源生成的数据集进行了实验，结果表明，所提出的方法能够帮助底层 STS 正确匹配更多的描述性标签与描述。