AutoQuery: Automatic Construction of Dependency Queries for Code Search

• Main Authors: WANG, Shaowei, LO, David, JIANG, Lingxiao
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Code search; Dependency query; Query construction; Graph mining; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2910; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3910/viewcontent/asej_autoquery_finaldraft.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Many code search techniques have been proposed to return relevant code for a user query expressed as textual descriptions. However, source code is not mere text. It contains dependency relations among various program elements. To leverage these dependencies for more accurate code search results, tec...