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How to help reusers retrieve components efficiently and conveniently is critical to the success of the component-based software development (CBSD). In the literature, many research efforts have been put into the improvement of component retrieval mechanisms. Although many different retrieval methods have been proposed, nowadays the component description text is still an important information source...