MulCS: Towards a Unified Deep Representation for Multilingual Code Search

• Published in: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) pp. 120 - 131
• Main Authors: Ma, Yingwei, Yu, Yue, Li, Shanshan, Jia, Zhouyang, Ma, Jun, Xu, Rulin, Dong, Wei, Liao, Xiangke
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.03.2023
• Subjects: Code search; Codes; contrastive learning; intermediate representation; multi-language; Programming; Semantics; Source coding; Syntactics; Training; Training data

Code search aims to search for relevant code snippets through queries, which has become an essential requirement to assist programmers in software development. With the availability of large and rapidly growing source code repositories covering various languages, multilingual code search can leverag...