Title: Resolving API Mentions in Informal Documents,
Abstract: Developer forums contain opinions and information related to the usage of
APIs. API names in forum posts are often not explicitly linked to their
official resources. Automatic linking of an API mention to its official
resources can be challenging for various reasons, such as, name overloading. We
present a technique, ANACE, to automatically resolve API mentions in the
textual contents of forum posts. Given a database of APIs, we first detect all
words in a forum post that are potential references to an API. We then use a
combination of heuristics and machine learning to eliminate false positives and
to link true positives to the actual APIs and their resources.