Code Intent Analysis

Requirements

• Python 2.7

Get Started

git clone https://github.com/masud99r/code-intent.git
cd code-intent
python codeintent.py

Details

codeness() method takes a sentence(query) as input and returns it's codescore. Some sample queries can be found in the method samplecodeness()

A length-normalized version of the code intent is given in codeness_norm(). It takes a sentence(query) as input and returns it's codescore normalized by sentence length.

For more details please refer to our MSR 2018 paper: Evaluating How Developers Use General-Purpose Web-Search for Code Retrieval

Citation

If you use this code or data, please consider citing this paper:

@inproceedings{rahman2018evaluating,
 author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Barson, Jed and Paul, Sydney and Kayani, Joshua and Lois, Federico Andr{\'e}s and Quezada, Sebasti\'{a}n Fernandez and Parnin, Christopher and Stolee, Kathryn T. and Ray, Baishakhi},
 title = {Evaluating How Developers Use General-purpose Web-search for Code Retrieval},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories},
 year = {2018},
 publisher = {ACM}
}