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Question-answering (QA) that comes naturally to humans is a critical component in seamless human-computer interaction. It has emerged as one of the most convenient and natural methods to interact with the web and is especially desirable in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Deepak Gupta

Spellchecking is one of the most fundamental and widely used search features. Correcting incorrectly spelled user queries not only enhances the user experience but is expected by the user. However, most widely available spellchecking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Sanat Sharma , Josep Valls-Vargas , Tracy Holloway King , Francois Guerin , Chirag Arora

Code retrieval is allowing software engineers to search codes through a natural language query, which relies on both natural language processing and software engineering techniques. There have been several attempts on code retrieval from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Mehdi Bahrami , N. C. Shrikanth , Yuji Mizobuchi , Lei Liu , Masahiro Fukuyori , Wei-Peng Chen , Kazuki Munakata

AI code generation tools are transforming software development, especially for novice and non-software developers, by enabling them to write code and build applications faster and with little to no human intervention. Vibe coding is the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Ahmed Fawzy , Amjed Tahir , Kelly Blincoe

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) contain vast amounts of linked resources that encode knowledge in various domains, which can be queried and searched for using specialized languages like SPARQL, a query language developed to query KGs. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Benedikt Kantz , Stefan Lengauer , Peter Waldert , Tobias Schreck

In source code search, a common information-seeking strategy involves providing a short initial query with a broad meaning, and then iteratively refining the query using terms gleaned from the results of subsequent searches. This strategy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Zachary Eberhart , Collin McMillan

Finding codes given natural language query isb eneficial to the productivity of software developers. Future progress towards better semantic matching between query and code requires richer supervised training resources. To remedy this, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Junjie Huang , Duyu Tang , Linjun Shou , Ming Gong , Ke Xu , Daxin Jiang , Ming Zhou , Nan Duan

Analytics on structured data is a mature field with many successful methods. However, most real world data exists in unstructured form, such as images and conversations. We investigate the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable…

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

Consider the case where a programmer has written some part of a program, but has left part of the program (such as a method or a function body) incomplete. The goal is to use the context surrounding the missing code to automatically 'figure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Rohan Mukherjee , Swarat Chaudhuri , Chris Jermaine

Large language models that enhance software development tasks, such as code generation, code completion, and code question answering (QA), have been extensively studied in both academia and the industry. The models are integrated into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Jialiang Chen , Kaifa Zhao , Jie Liu , Chao Peng , Jierui Liu , Hang Zhu , Pengfei Gao , Ping Yang , Shuiguang Deng

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

Developers spend a significant amount of time searching for code: e.g., to understand how to complete, correct, or adapt their own code for a new context. Unfortunately, the state of the art in code search has not evolved much beyond text…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Vineeth Kashyap , David Bingham Brown , Ben Liblit , David Melski , Thomas Reps

Stack Overflow has been heavily used by software developers to seek programming-related information. More and more developers use Community Question and Answer forums, such as Stack Overflow, to search for code examples of how to accomplish…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zhipeng Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy , Xindong Zhang , Zhenchang Xing

Code search engine is an essential tool in software development. Many code search methods have sprung up, focusing on the overall ranking performance of code search. In this paper, we study code search from another perspective by analyzing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Sheng Zhang , Hui Li , Yanlin Wang , Zhao Wei , Yong Xiu , Juhong Wang , Rongong Ji

Automatic query reformulation is a widely utilized technology for enriching user requirements and enhancing the outcomes of code search. It can be conceptualized as a machine translation task, wherein the objective is to rephrase a given…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yuetian Mao , Chengcheng Wan , Yuze Jiang , Xiaodong Gu

Visual query systems (VQSs) empower users to interactively search for line charts with desired visual patterns, typically specified using intuitive sketch-based interfaces. Despite decades of past work on VQSs, these efforts have not…

We describe an intelligent assistant based on mining existing software repositories to help the developer interactively create checkable specifications of code. To be most useful we apply this at the subsystem level, that is chunks of code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Steven P. Reiss

Designers rely on visual search to explore and develop ideas in early design stages. However, designers can struggle to identify suitable text queries to initiate a search or to discover images for similarity-based search that can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Kihoon Son , DaEun Choi , Tae Soo Kim , Young-Ho Kim , Juho Kim

With the rise of voice assistants and an increase in mobile search usage, natural language has become an important query language. So far, most of the current systems are not able to process these queries because of the vagueness and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Andrea Papenmeier , Alfred Sliwa , Dagmar Kern , Daniel Hienert , Ahmet Aker , Norbert Fuhr