… By applying LSA to source code and its associated … similarity measures. A number of
metrics are defined based on these similarity measures to help support program understanding. …

… The goal of this study is to investigate whether source code similarity can be learned from
different kinds of program representations, with the purpose of understanding whether one can …

… In this paper, we fill the gap by presenting the largest extant study on source code similarity
that covers the … from reverse engineering by making it difficult or impossible to understand. …

… who need to look into the source code for understanding. Thus, we believe annotation should
not intervene the similarity measure for the source code programs. Deleting annotations in …

… An obvious example of this in programming is source code comments, which are generally
easier to understand than the code itself. In light of this benefit, several studies automatically …

… the similarity of those summaries to source code. This study found that the similarity to a
method’s source code … to better understand the relationships that exist between source code and …

… Understanding the functional (dis)-similarity of source code is significant for code modeling
tasks such as software vulnerability and code … We present DISCO (DISsimilarity of COde), a …

… the semantic similarity measure between source code documents described earlier. These
… have for source code understanding. By lowering the threshold for defining the similarity, we …

… of source code are overlooked. To understand software as a whole, we need to enrich software
analysis with the … We use this similarity measurement to identify topics in the source code. …

… transformations” [160] and “A plagiarized program can be defined as a program that has
been produced from another program without a detailed understanding of the source code” [98]. …