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In this work, we propose and study annotated code search: the retrieval of code snippets paired with brief descriptions of their intent using natural language queries. On three benchmark datasets, we investigate how code retrieval systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Geert Heyman , Tom Van Cutsem

In recent years, the rise of deep learning and automation requirements in the software industry has elevated Intelligent Software Engineering to new heights. The number of approaches and applications in code understanding is growing, with…

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Code analysis is fundamental in Software Engineering, supporting debugging, optimization, and security assessment. Human developers approach it through syntax parsing, static semantics inference, and dynamic reasoning. Traditional tools are…

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Tables on the Web contain a vast amount of knowledge in a structured form. To tap into this valuable resource, we address the problem of table retrieval: answering an information need with a ranked list of tables. We investigate this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

Recent advances in deep learning have greatly propelled the research on semantic parsing. Improvement has since been made in many downstream tasks, including natural language interface to web APIs, text-to-SQL generation, among others.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yu Gu , Vardaan Pahuja , Gong Cheng , Yu Su

Traditional search methods primarily depend on string matches, while semantic search targets concept-based matches by recognizing underlying intents and contextual meanings of search terms. Semantic search is particularly beneficial for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Phillip Schneider , Florian Matthes

Reusing published datasets on the Web is of great interest to researchers and developers. Their data needs may be met by submitting queries to a dataset search engine to retrieve relevant datasets. In this ongoing work towards developing a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Jinchi Chen , Xiaxia Wang , Gong Cheng , Evgeny Kharlamov , Yuzhong Qu

Recently, deep learning methods have become mainstream in code search since they do better at capturing semantic correlations between code snippets and search queries and have promising performance. However, code snippets have diverse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Lun Du , Xiaozhou Shi , Yanlin Wang , Ensheng Shi , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Estimating the semantic similarity between text data is one of the challenging and open research problems in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The versatility of natural language makes it difficult to define rule-based methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Dhivya Chandrasekaran , Vijay Mago

Despite the continuous efforts in improving both the effectiveness and efficiency of code search, two issues remained unsolved. First, programming languages have inherent strong structural linkages, and feature mining of code as text form…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yi Hu , Bo Cai , Yaoxiang Yu

This paper attempts to discuss the evolution of the retrieval approaches focusing on development, challenges and future direction of the image retrieval. It highlights both the already addressed and outstanding issues. The explosive growth…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Hui Hui Wang , Dzulkifli Mohamad , N. A. Ismail

With the increase in the number of open repositories and discussion forums, the use of natural language for semantic code search has become increasingly common. The accuracy of the results returned by such systems, however, can be low due…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Raunak Sinha , Utkarsh Desai , Srikanth Tamilselvam , Senthil Mani

Most works on Web services has focused on discovery, composition and selection processes of these kinds of services. Other few works were interested in how to represent Web services search queries. However, these queries cannot be processed…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-04-26 Ibrahim El Bitar , Fatima Zahra Belouadha , Ounsa Roudies

With the information explosion on the Web, search and recommendation are foundational infrastructures to satisfying users' information needs. As the two sides of the same coin, both revolve around the same core research problem, matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Yongqi Li , Xinyu Lin , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Liang Pang , Wenjie Li , Liqiang Nie , Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua

The automatic generation of source code is one of the long-lasting dreams in software engineering research. Several techniques have been proposed to speed up the writing of new code. For example, code completion techniques can recommend to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Matteo Ciniselli , Luca Pascarella , Emad Aghajani , Simone Scalabrino , Rocco Oliveto , Gabriele Bavota

The field of Web services is an important paradigm in distributed application development. Currently, many businesses are seeking to convert their applications into web services because of its ability to promote inter-operability among…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-04-08 A Anji Reddy , S Sowmya Kamath

The search engine process is crucial for document content retrieval. For Khmer documents, an effective tool is needed to extract essential keywords and facilitate accurate searches. Despite the daily generation of significant Khmer content,…

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Language models can serve as a valuable tool for software developers to increase productivity. Large generative models can be used for code generation and code completion, while smaller encoder-only models are capable of performing code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Andor Diera , Abdelhalim Dahou , Lukas Galke , Fabian Karl , Florian Sihler , Ansgar Scherp

Thinking of todays web search scenario which is mainly keyword based, leads to the need of effective and meaningful search provided by Semantic Web. Existing search engines are vulnerable to provide relevant answers to users query due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay , Manoj Sharma , Gajanan Joshi , Trupti Pagare , Adarsha Palwe

Multi-stage ranking pipelines have been a practical solution in modern search systems, where the first-stage retrieval is to return a subset of candidate documents, and latter stages attempt to re-rank those candidates. Unlike re-ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Jiafeng Guo , Yinqiong Cai , Yixing Fan , Fei Sun , Ruqing Zhang , Xueqi Cheng