NDLI: Improving source code search with natural language phrasal representations of method signatures

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hill, E. Pollock, L. Vijay-Shanker, K.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: Deptartment of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, 19716, USA (Pollock, L.; Vijay-Shanker, K.) \|\| Deptartment of Computer Science, Montclair State University, NJ 07043, USA (Hill, E.)
Abstract	As software continues to grow, locating code for maintenance tasks becomes increasingly difficult. Software search tools help developers find source code relevant to their maintenance tasks. One major challenge to successful search tools is locating relevant code when the user's query contains words with multiple meanings or words that occur frequently throughout the program. Traditional search techniques, which treat each word individually, are unable to distinguish relevant and irrelevant methods under these conditions. In this paper, we present a novel search technique that uses information such as the position of the query word and its semantic role to calculate relevance. Our evaluation shows that this approach is more consistently effective than three other state of the art search techniques.
Starting Page	524
Ending Page	527
File Size	229166
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781457716386
e-ISBN	9781457716393
DOI	10.1109/ASE.2011.6100115
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-11-06
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Semantics Software Mathematical model Equations Information retrieval Head Natural languages software maintenance code search concern location
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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