Year: 2019
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Many software analysis methods have come to rely on machine learning approaches.Code segmentation -the process of decomposing source code into meaningful blockscan augment these methods by featurizing code, reducing noise, and limiting the problem space.Traditionally, code segmentation has been done using syntactic cues; current approaches do not intentionally capture logical content.We develop a novel deep learning approach to generate logical code segments regardless of the language or syntactic correctness of the code.Due to the lack of logically segmented source code, we introduce a unique data set construction technique to approximate ground truth for logically segmented code.Logical code segmentation can improve tasks such as automatically commenting code, detecting software vulnerabilities, repairing bugs, labeling code functionality, and synthesizing new code.
Authors: Jacob Dormuth, Ben Gelman, Jessica Moore, David Slater
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2963739836