Deep Learning (DL) techniques for Natural Language Processing have been evolving
remarkably fast. Recently, the DL advances in language modeling, machine translation, and …

The immense amounts of source code provide ample challenges and opportunities during
software development. To handle the size of code bases, developers commonly search for …

To implement a program functionality, developers can reuse previously written code
snippets by searching through a large-scale codebase. Over the years, many code search …

Developers often wonder how to implement a certain functionality (eg, how to parse XML
files) using APIs. Obtaining an API usage sequence based on an API-related natural …

Code retrieval techniques and tools have been playing a key role in facilitating software
developers to retrieve existing code fragments from available open-source repositories …

Programmers often write code that has similarity to existing code written somewhere. A tool
that could help programmers to search such similar code would be immensely useful. Such …

Searching over large code corpora can be a powerful productivity tool for both beginner and
experienced developers because it helps them quickly find examples of code related to their …

Searching and reusing existing code from a large-scale codebase, eg, GitHub, can help
developers complete a programming task efficiently. Recently, Gu et al. proposed a deep …

Searching and reusing code snippets from open-source software repositories based on
natural-language queries can greatly improve programming productivity. Recently, deep …

Code retrieval is to find the code snippet from a large corpus of source code repositories that
highly matches the query of natural language description. Recent work mainly uses natural …