How to better utilize code graphs in semantic code search?

• Main Authors: SHI, Yucen, YIN, Ying, WANG, Zhengkui, LO, David, ZHANG, Tao, XIA, Xin, ZHAO, Yuhai, XU, Bowen
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7734
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Semantic code search greatly facilitates software reuse, which enables users to find code snippets highly matching user-specified natural language queries. Due to the rich expressive power of code graphs (e.g., control-flow graph and program dependency graph), both of the two mainstream research wor...