Recent software advances have led to an expansion of the development and usage of
application programming interfaces (APIs). From millions of Android packages (APKs) …

Code search is a core software engineering task. Effective code search tools can help
developers substantially improve their software development efficiency and effectiveness. In …

Code generation is a longstanding challenge, aiming to generate a code snippet based on a
natural language description. Usually, expensive text-code paired data is essential for …

We address the problem of synthesizing code completions for programs using APIs. Given a
program with holes, we synthesize completions for holes with the most likely sequences of …

Every programmer has a characteristic style, ranging from preferences about identifier
naming to preferences about object relationships and design patterns. Coding conventions …

In theory,(good) documentation is an invaluable asset to any software project, as it helps
stakeholders to use, understand, maintain, and evolve a system. In practice, however …

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 …

The n-gram language model, which has its roots in statistical natural language processing,
has been shown to successfully capture the repetitive and predictable regularities …

Programmers often consult an online Q&A forum such as Stack Overflow to learn new APIs.
This paper presents an empirical study on the prevalence and severity of API misuse on …

n-gram statistical language model has been successfully applied to capture programming
patterns to support code completion and suggestion. However, the approaches using n …