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Semantic code search is the task of retrieving relevant code snippet given a natural language query. Different from typical information retrieval tasks, code search requires to bridge the semantic gap between the programming language and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Chen Wu , Ming Yan

With the recent explosion in the size and complexity of source codebases and software projects, the need for efficient source code search engines has increased dramatically. Unfortunately, existing information retrieval-based methods fail…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Muhammad Khalifa

Code search is a core software engineering task. Effective code search tools can help developers substantially improve their software development efficiency and effectiveness. In recent years, many code search studies have leveraged…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Chao Liu , Xin Xia , David Lo , Cuiyun Gao , Xiaohu Yang , John Grundy

There has been an increase of interest in code search using natural language. Assessing the performance of such code search models can be difficult without a readily available evaluation suite. In this paper, we present an evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Hongyu Li , Seohyun Kim , Satish Chandra

Code search is a task to find programming codes that semantically match the given natural language queries. Even though some of the existing datasets for this task are multilingual on the programming language side, their query data are only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ryo Sekizawa , Nan Duan , Shuai Lu , Hitomi Yanaka

The immense amounts of source code provide ample challenges and opportunities during software development. To handle the size of code bases, developers commonly search for code, e.g., when trying to find where a particular feature is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Luca Di Grazia , Michael Pradel

Translation between natural language and source code can help software development by enabling developers to comprehend, ideate, search, and write computer programs in natural language. Despite growing interest from the industry and the…

Millions of repetitive code snippets are submitted to code repositories every day. To search from these large codebases using simple natural language queries would allow programmers to ideate, prototype, and develop easier and faster.…

Programmers currently enjoy access to a very high number of code repositories and libraries of ever increasing size. The ensuing potential for reuse is however hampered by the fact that searching within all this code becomes an increasingly…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Isabel Garcia-Contreras , Jose F. Morales , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

Since programming concepts do not match their syntactic representations, code search is a very tedious task. For instance in Java or C, array doesn't match [], so using "array" as a query, one cannot find what they are looking for. Often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Deepak Thukral , Darvesh Punia

Searching for mathematical results remains difficult: most existing tools retrieve entire papers, while mathematicians and theorem-proving agents often seek a specific theorem, lemma, or proposition that answers a query. While semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Luke Alexander , Eric Leonen , Sophie Szeto , Artemii Remizov , Ignacio Tejeda , Jarod Alper , Giovanni Inchiostro , Vasily Ilin

Software developers frequently issue generic natural language queries for code search while using code search engines (e.g., GitHub native search, Krugle). Such queries often do not lead to any relevant results due to vocabulary mismatch…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

One common task of developing or maintaining software is searching the source code for information like specific method calls or write accesses to certain fields. This kind of information is required to correctly implement new features and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Markus Kimmig , Martin Monperrus , Mira Mezini

Code writing is repetitive and predictable, inspiring us to develop various code intelligence techniques. This survey focuses on code search, that is, to retrieve code that matches a given query by effectively capturing the semantic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yutao Xie , Jiayi Lin , Hande Dong , Lei Zhang , Zhonghai Wu

With the growth of natural language processing techniques and demand for improved software engineering efficiency, there is an emerging interest in translating intention from human languages to programming languages. In this survey paper,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Celine Lee , Justin Gottschlich , Dan Roth

Code search is a widely used technique by developers during software development. It provides semantically similar implementations from a large code corpus to developers based on their queries. Existing techniques leverage deep learning…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Yuchen Chen , Guanhong Tao , Tingxu Han , Quanjun Zhang

Automated documentation of programming source code and automated code generation from natural language are challenging tasks of both practical and scientific interest. Progress in these areas has been limited by the low availability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone , Rico Sennrich

As code search permeates most activities in software development,code-to-code search has emerged to support using code as a query and retrieving similar code in the search results. Applications include duplicate code detection for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-18 George Mathew , Kathryn T. Stolee

Software developers routinely search for code using general-purpose search engines. However, these search engines cannot find code semantically unless it has an accompanying description. We propose a technique for semantic code search: A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Marcelo de Rezende Martins , Marco A. Gerosa

Efficient code retrieval is critical for developer productivity, yet existing benchmarks largely focus on Python and rarely stress-test robustness beyond superficial lexical cues. To address the gap, we introduce an automated pipeline for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Kaicheng Wang , Liyan Huang , Weike Fang , Weihang Wang
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