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A statistical semantic language model for source code
Abstract
Recent research has successfully applied the statistical n-gram language model to show that source code exhibits a good level of repetition. The n-gram model is shown to have good predictability in supporting code suggestion and completion. However, the state-of-the-art n-gram approach to capture source code regularities/patterns is based only on the lexical information in a local context of the code units. To improve predictability, we introduce SLAMC, a novel statistical semantic language model for source code. It incorporates semantic information into code tokens and models the regularities/patterns of such semantic annotations, called sememes, rather than their lexemes. It combines the local context in semantic n-grams with the global technical concerns/functionality into an n-gram topic model, together with pairwise associations of program elements. Based on SLAMC, we developed a new code suggestion method, which is empirically evaluated on several projects to have relatively 18-68% higher accuracy than the state-of-the-art approach.
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- Authors
- Nguyen, T. T., Nguyen, A. T., Nguyen, H. A., & Nguyen, T. N.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2013-08-18
- Pages
- 532-542
- OpenAlex
- W1994573369
- Cited by
- 208
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 15.07
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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