CodeMatcher: A tool for large-scale code search based on query semantics matching

• Main Authors: LIU, Chao, BAO, Xuanlin, XIA, Xin, YAN, Meng, LO, David, ZHANG, Ting
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Programming Languages and Compilers; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7728; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8731/viewcontent/CodeMatcher_cp_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Due to the emergence of large-scale codebases, such as GitHub and Gitee, searching and reusing existing code can help developers substantially improve software development productivity. Over the years, many code search tools have been developed. Early tools leveraged the information retrieval (IR) t...