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Recent advances in AI have catalyzed the adoption of intelligent educational tools, yet many semantic retrieval systems remain ill-suited to the unique linguistic and structural characteristics of academic content. This study presents two…

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In Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) tasks using Large Language Models (LLMs), the quality of retrieved information is critical to the final output. This paper introduces the IRSC benchmark for evaluating the performance of embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Hai Lin , Shaoxiong Zhan , Junyou Su , Haitao Zheng , Hui Wang

Code-Comment Synchronization (CCS) aims to synchronize the comments with code changes in an automated fashion, thereby significantly reducing the workload of developers during software maintenance and evolution. While previous studies have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhen Yang , Hongyi Lin , Xiao Yu , Jacky Wai Keung , Shuo Liu , Pak Yuen Patrick Chan , Yicheng Sun , Fengji Zhang

Code search aims to retrieve the code snippet that highly matches the given query described in natural language. Recently, many code pre-training approaches have demonstrated impressive performance on code search. However, existing code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yubo Zhang , Yanfang Liu , Xinxin Fan , Yunfeng Lu

Relevance modeling between queries and items stands as a pivotal component in commercial search engines, directly affecting the user experience. Given the remarkable achievements of large language models (LLMs) in various natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Kaixin Wu , Yixin Ji , Zeyuan Chen , Qiang Wang , Cunxiang Wang , Hong Liu , Baijun Ji , Jia Xu , Zhongyi Liu , Jinjie Gu , Yuan Zhou , Linjian Mo

Context: Code smells (CS) tend to compromise software quality and also demand more effort by developers to maintain and evolve the application throughout its life-cycle. They have long been catalogued with corresponding mitigating solutions…

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Searching code is a common task that developers perform to understand APIs, learn common code patterns, and navigate code. Currently, developers most commonly search using keywords and regular expressions that are easy to use and widely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Ben Limpanukorn , Yanjun Wang , Zach Patterson , Pranav Garg , Murali Krishna Ramanathan , Xiaofei Ma , Anoop Deoras , Miryung Kim

Semantic code search, which aims to retrieve code snippets relevant to a given natural language query, has attracted many research efforts with the purpose of accelerating software development. The huge amount of online publicly available…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hao Wang , Jia Zhang , Yingce Xia , Jiang Bian , Chao Zhang , Tie-Yan Liu

Machine Reading at Scale (MRS) is a challenging task in which a system is given an input query and is asked to produce a precise output by "reading" information from a large knowledge base. The task has gained popularity with its natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Yixin Nie , Songhe Wang , Mohit Bansal

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

Semantic code search has been widely adopted in both academia and industry. These approaches embed natural-language queries and code snippets into a shared embedding space and retrieve results based on vector similarity. Despit strong…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yiming Liu , Ruofan Liu , Yun Lin , Zicong Zhang , Weiyu Kong , Pengnian Qi , Xiao Cheng , Weinan Zhang , Qianxiang Wang , Linpeng Huang

Code search is to search reusable code snippets from source code corpus based on natural languages queries. Deep learning-based methods of code search have shown promising results. However, previous methods focus on retrieval accuracy but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wenchao Gu , Yanlin Wang , Lun Du , Hongyu Zhang , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang , Michael R. Lyu

Learning a high-dimensional dense representation for vocabulary terms, also known as a word embedding, has recently attracted much attention in natural language processing and information retrieval tasks. The embedding vectors are typically…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Hamed Zamani , W. Bruce Croft

Information retrieval systems are crucial for enabling effective access to large document collections. Recent approaches have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance retrieval performance through query augmentation, but often rely…

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Code embeddings capture the semantic representations of code and are crucial for various code-related large language model (LLM) applications, such as code search. Previous training primarily relies on optimizing the InfoNCE loss by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zuchen Gao , Zizheng Zhan , Xianming Li , Erxin Yu , Ziqi Zhan , Haotian Zhang , Bin Chen , Yuqun Zhang , Jing Li

COTS-based development is a component reuse approach promising to reduce costs and risks, and ensure higher quality. The growing availability of COTS components on the Web has concretized the possibility of achieving these objectives. In…

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Over the past few years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been continuously expanding their real-world applications for source code processing tasks across the software engineering domain, e.g., clone detection, code search, comment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Maryam Vahdat Pour , Zhuo Li , Lei Ma , Hadi Hemmati

Information retrieval systems have traditionally relied on exact term match methods such as BM25 for first-stage retrieval. However, recent advancements in neural network-based techniques have introduced a new method called dense retrieval.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ahmed H. Salamah , Pierre McWhannel , Nicole Yan

With the development of earth observation technology, massive amounts of remote sensing (RS) images are acquired. To find useful information from these images, cross-modal RS image-voice retrieval provides a new insight. This paper aims to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Hailong Ning , Bin Zhao , Yuan Yuan

Lexical and semantic matching capture different successful approaches to text retrieval and the fusion of their results has proven to be more effective and robust than either alone. Prior work performs hybrid retrieval by conducting lexical…

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