Self Learning from Large Scale Code Corpus to Infer Structure of Method Invocations release_vx57l52xavh5deyhasqwcjolu4

by Hung Phan

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Automatically generating code from a textual description of method invocation confronts challenges. There were two current research directions for this problem. One direction focuses on considering a textual description of method invocations as a separate Natural Language query and do not consider the surrounding context of the code. Another direction takes advantage of a practical large scale code corpus for providing a Machine Translation model to generate code. However, this direction got very low accuracy. In this work, we tried to improve these drawbacks by proposing MethodInfoToCode, an approach that embeds context information and optimizes the ability of learning of original Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (PBMT) in NLP to infer implementation of method invocation given method name and other context information. We conduct an expression prediction models learned from 2.86 million method invocations from the practical data of high qualities corpus on Github that used 6 popular libraries: JDK, Android, GWT, Joda-Time, Hibernate, and Xstream. By the evaluation, we show that if the developers only write the method name of a method invocation in a body of a method, MethodInfoToCode can predict the generated expression correctly at 73% in F1 score.
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