1 Introduction Program retrieval aims to enable the flexible retrieval of program snippets based on a natural language query,significantly accelerating software development productivity.Study shows that over 60%of dev...1 Introduction Program retrieval aims to enable the flexible retrieval of program snippets based on a natural language query,significantly accelerating software development productivity.Study shows that over 60%of developers perform program retrieval daily[1].Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in deep learning-based program retrieval,which aims to construct embedding representations for program snippets and queries.However,the distribution of natural languages and programs is inconsistent,resulting in a semantic gap.The critical challenge is to bridge the semantic gap between the programming language and natural language,and accurately measure their similarity.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62192733 and 62192730).
文摘1 Introduction Program retrieval aims to enable the flexible retrieval of program snippets based on a natural language query,significantly accelerating software development productivity.Study shows that over 60%of developers perform program retrieval daily[1].Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in deep learning-based program retrieval,which aims to construct embedding representations for program snippets and queries.However,the distribution of natural languages and programs is inconsistent,resulting in a semantic gap.The critical challenge is to bridge the semantic gap between the programming language and natural language,and accurately measure their similarity.
