Source code retrieval using conceptual similarity

Authors
Publication date 2004
Book title Proceedins RIAO 2004
Pages (from-to) 539-554
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract We propose a method for retrieving segments of source code from a large repository. The method is based on conceptual modeling of the code, combining information extracted from the structure of the code and standard informationdistance measures. Our results show an improvement over traditional retrieval models, indicating that, for this type of highly-structured documents, usage of structure is indeed beneficial for retrieval.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
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