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ICSE 2020
Wed 24 June - Thu 16 July 2020
Sat 11 Jul 2020 00:00 - 00:12 at Silla - P27-Applications Chair(s): Ganesha Upadhyaya

Statistical language modeling techniques have successfully been applied to large source code corpora, yielding a variety of new software development tools, such as tools for code suggestion, improving readability, and API migration. A major issue with these techniques is that code introduces new vocabulary at a far higher rate than natural language, as new identifier names proliferate. Both large vocabularies and out-of-vocabulary issues severely affect Neural Language Models (NLMs) of source code, degrading their performance and rendering them unable to scale. In this paper, we address this issue by: 1) studying how various modelling choices impact the resulting vocabulary on a large-scale corpus of 13,362 projects; 2) presenting an open vocabulary source code NLM that can scale to such a corpus, 100 times larger than in previous work; and 3) showing that such models outperform the state of the art on three distinct code corpora (Java, C, Python). To our knowledge, these are the largest NLMs for code that have been reported. All datasets, code, and trained models used in this work are publicly available.

Sat 11 Jul

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00:00 - 01:00
00:00
12m
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Big Code != Big Vocabulary: Open-Vocabulary Models for Source codeACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper AwardsArtifact ReusableTechnicalArtifact Available
Technical Papers
Rafael-Michael Karampatsis The University of Edinburgh, Hlib Babii Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Romain Robbes Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Charles Sutton Google Research, Andrea Janes Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
DOI Pre-print
00:12
12m
Talk
Engineering for a Science-Centric Experimentation PlatformSEIP
Software Engineering in Practice
Nikos Diamantopoulos Netflix, Inc., Jeffrey Wong Netflix, Inc., David Issa Mattos Chalmers University of Technology, Ilias Gerostathopoulos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Matthew Wardrop Netflix, Inc., Tobias Mao Netflix, Inc., Colin McFarland Netflix, Inc.
00:24
12m
Talk
Managing data constraints in database-backed web applicationsArtifact ReusableTechnicalArtifact Available
Technical Papers
Junwen Yang University of Chicago, Utsav Sethi University of Chicago, Cong Yan University of Washington, Alvin Cheung University of California, Berkeley, Shan Lu University of Chicago
00:36
12m
Talk
Improving Data Scientist Efficiency with ProvenanceArtifact ReusableTechnicalArtifact Available
Technical Papers
Jingmei Hu Harvard University, Jiwon Joung Harvard University, Maia Jacobs Harvard University, Margo Seltzer University of British Columbia, Krzysztof Gajos Harvard University