Nigel Stanger

2026

Journal - Research Article

Chambers, T., Dean, F., Klavs, J., Stanger, N., Kim, A., Hales, S., Douwes, J., Baker, M. G., & Deng, J. (2026). A national-scale historical assessment of nitrate in public drinking water supplies in New Zealand: Data integration and machine learning imputation approaches. Water Environment Research, 98(2), e70296. doi: 10.1002/wer.70296

2025

Journal - Research Article

Zolduoarrati, E., Licorish, S. A., & Stanger, N. (2025). Comprehensive predictive analytics for collaborators' answers, code quality, and dropout: Stack overflow case study. Empirical Software Engineering, 30, 147. doi: 10.1007/s10664-025-10692-4

Zolduoarrati, E., Licorish, S. A., & Stanger, N. (2025). Stack overflow’s hidden nuances: How does zip code define user contribution? Journal of Systems & Software, 223, 112374. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2025.112374

2024

Journal - Research Article

Zolduoarrati, E., Licorish, S. A., & Stanger, N. (2024). Harmonising contributions: Exploring diversity in software engineering through CQA mining on Stack Overflow. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering & Methodology, 33(7), 179. doi: 10.1145/3672453

Grattan, N., Alencar da Costa, D., & Stanger, N. (2024). The need for more informative defect prediction: A systematic literature review. Information & Software Technology, 171, 107456. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107456

2023

Journal - Research Article

Alencar da Costa, D., Grattan, N., Stanger, N., & Licorish, S. A. (2023). Studying the characteristics of SQL-related development tasks: An empirical study. Empirical Software Engineering, 28, 69. doi: 10.1007/s10664-023-10295-x

Zolduoarrati, E., Licorish, S. A., & Stanger, N. (2023). Secondary studies on human aspects in software engineering: A tertiary study. Journal of Systems & Software, 200, 111654. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2023.111654

Sharma, P. N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2023). How are decisions made in open source software communities? Uncovering rationale from python email repositories. Journal of Software: Evolution & Process, 36, e2526. doi: 10.1002/smr.2526

2022

Journal - Research Article

Sharma, P. N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2022). Unearthing open source decision-making processes: A case study of python enhancement proposals. Software: Practice & Experience, 52, 2312-2346. doi: 10.1002/spe.3128

Zolduoarrati, E., Licorish, S. A., & Stanger, N. (2022). Impact of individualism and collectivism cultural profiles on the behaviour of software developers: A study of stack overflow. Journal of Systems & Software, 192, 111427. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2022.111427

2021

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Sharma, P. N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2021). Extracting rationale for Open Source Software Development decisions: A study of Python email archives. Proceedings of the IEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). (pp. 1008-1019). doi: 10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00095

Sharma, P. N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2021). Influence of roles in decision-making during OSS development: A study of Python. In R. Chitchyan, J. Li, B. Weber & T. Yue (Eds.), Proceedings of the Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) Conference. (pp. 50-59). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3463274.3463326

Ott, C., John, S., Zwanenburg, S., Stanger, N., & Mills, S. (2021). Is this degree for me? Exploring computing students' study decisions. Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE). (pp. 96-105). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3441636.3442310

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Sharma, P. N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2021). Extracting rationale for Open Source Software development decisions: A study of Python email archives. arXiv. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05232

2020

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Sharma, P., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2020). Mining decision-making processes in open source software development: A study of Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) using email repositories. Proceedings of the Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). (pp. 200-209). ACM. doi: 10.1145/3383219.3383240

2018

Journal - Research Article

Meredith-Jones, K., Haszard, J., Stanger, N., & Taylor, R. (2018). Precision of DXA-derived visceral fat measurements in a large sample of adults of varying body size. Obesity, 26(3), 505-512. doi: 10.1002/oby.22108

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Stanger, N. (2018). Semi-automated assessment of SQL schemas via database unit testing. In J. C. Yang, M. Chang, L.-H. Wong & M. M. T. Rodrigo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE). (pp. 237-246). Taiwan, China: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. [Full Paper]

Licorish, S. A., Zolduoarrati, E., & Stanger, N. (2018). Linking user requests, developer responses and code changes: Android OS case study. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). (pp. 79-89). ACM. doi: 10.1145/3210459.3210467

2017

Journal - Research Article

Stanger, N., Alnaghaimshi, N., & Pearson, E. (2017). How do Saudi youth engage with social media? First Monday, 22(5). doi: 10.5210/fm.v22i5.7102

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Sharma, P. N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2017). Boundary spanners in open source software development: A study of Python email archives. Proceedings of the 24th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC). (pp. 308-317). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/APSEC.2017.37

Sharma, P., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Stanger, N., Licorish, S. A., & Rainer, A. (2017). Investigating developers' email discussions during decision-making in Python language evolution. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). (pp. 286-291). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3084226.3084271

Stanger, N. (2017). Characterising relational view updates using relative information capacity. Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference (ACSW). 33. New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3014812.3014847

2014

Journal - Research Article

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2014). Contextual information retrieval in research articles: Semantic publishing tools for the research community. Semantic Web, 5(4), 261-293. doi: 10.3233/SW-130097

2013

Journal - Research Article

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2013). Context identification of sentences in research articles: Towards developing intelligent tools for the research community. Natural Language Engineering, 19(4), 481-515. doi: 10.1017/S1351324912000277

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2013). Conditional random field based sentence context identification: Enhancing citation services for the research community. In H. Ashman, Q. Z. Sheng & A. Trotman (Eds.), Proceedings of the First Australasian Web Conference (AWC). (pp. 59-68). Sydney, Australia: Australian Computer Society. [Full Paper]

2012

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2012). A citation centric annotation scheme for scientific articles. In P. Cook & S. Nowson (Eds.), Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) Workshop. 10, (pp. 5-14). [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Stanger, N. (2012, December). The challenges of building online community museums. Invited presentation at the Seventeenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS), Dunedin, New Zealand.

2011

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2011). Contextual information extraction in research articles: A case of developing contextual RDF data for ESWC papers. In C. Ghidini, A.-C. Ngonga Ngomo, S. Lindstaedt & T. Pellegrini (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS). (pp. 234-236). doi: 10.1145/2063518.2063557

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2011). Contextual information retrieval in research articles: Semantic publishing tools for the research community [Information Science Discussion Paper Series No. 2011/06]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 39p.

2010

Chapter in Book - Research

Stanger, N. (2010). The digitisation of New Zealand's research, heritage and culture. In J. Toland (Ed.), Return to tomorrow: 50 years of computing in New Zealand. (pp. 139-156). Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Computer Society.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2010). Context identification of sentences in related work sections using a conditional random field: Towards intelligent digital libraries. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). (pp. 293-302). New York: ACM. [Full Paper]

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2010). Ontology-based modelling of related work sections in research articles: Using CRFs for developing semantic data based information retrieval systems. In A. Paschke, N. Henze & T. Pellegrini (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS). New York: ACM. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2010). Semantic web application for querying inter-article relationships. Proceedings of the Information Science Postgraduate Day. (pp. 21-22). Retrieved from http://infosci.otago.ac.nz/information-science-postgrad-day-2010/

2008

Chapter in Book - Research

Stanger, N. (2008). Scalability of techniques for online geographic visualization of web site hits. In A. Moore & I. Drecki (Eds.), Geospatial vision: New dimensions in cartography: Lecture notes in geoinformation and cartography. (pp. 192-217). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-70970-1_9

2007

Journal - Research Article

Stanger, N., & McGregor, G. (2007). EPrints makes its mark. OCLC Systems & Services, 23(2), 133-141.

2006

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Stanger, N. (2006). The view from the Chathams: Geovisualisation of web site hits using Google Earth™. In P. A. Whigham (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre. (pp. 53-59). Dunedin, New Zealand: SIRC, University of Otago. [Full Paper]

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Stanger, N., & McGregor, G. (2006). Hitting the ground running: Building New Zealand's first publicly available institutional repository [Discussion Paper Series No. 2006/07]. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago. 10p.

2004

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Gleeson, M., Stanger, N., & Ferguson, E. (2004). Design strategies for GUI items with touch screen based information systems: Assessing the ability of a touch screen overlay as a selection device. The Information Science Discussion Paper Series 2004/02. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago. 8p.

2002

Authored Book - Research

Auld, C., Kent, A., Limeback, R., Stanger, N. J., & Willis, T. (2002). Practical Web Database Design (First ed.). Birmingham, United Kingdom: glasshaus Ltd, 300p.

2000

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Stanger, N. J. (2000). Translating descriptions of a viewpoint among different representations. In J. S. Dong, J. He & M. Purvis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2000). (pp. 222-229). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper]

Stanger, N. J. (2000). A viewpoint-based framework for discussing the use of multiple modeling representations. In A. H. F. Laender, S. W. Liddle & V. C. Storey (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER 2000). 1920, (pp. 154-167). New York, USA: Springer Verlag. [Full Paper]

1997

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Stanger, N. J., & Pascoe, R. T. (1997). Environments for viewpoint representations. In R. Galliers, C. Murphy, H. R. Hansen, R. O'Callaghan, S. Carlsson & C. Loebbecke (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Information Systems, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, June 19-21, 1997. 1, (pp. 367-382). Cork, Ireland: Cork Publishing. [Full Paper]

Stanger, N. J., & Pascoe, R. T. (1997). Exploiting the advantages of object-oriented programming in the implementation of a database design environment. Proceedings: Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference and International Computer Science Conference, December 2-5, 1997, Hong Kong. (pp. 525-526). Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper]

1996

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Stanger, N. J. (1996). A language abstraction layer for relational DBMS. Proceedings of Software Engineering: Education and Practice (SE:E&P '96), Dunedin. (pp. 93-96). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper]