Pointing to Subwords for Generating Function Names in Source Code

Shogo Fujita; Hidetaka Kamigaito; Hiroya Takamura; Manabu Okumura

COLING 2020main2 citations

Pointing to Subwords for Generating Function Names in Source Code

Shogo Fujita, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura

Abstract

We tackle the task of automatically generating a function name from source code. Existing generators face difficulties in generating low-frequency or out-of-vocabulary subwords. In this paper, we propose two strategies for copying low-frequency or out-of-vocabulary subwords in inputs. Our best performing model showed an improvement over the conventional method in terms of our modified F1 and accuracy on the Java-small and Java-large datasets.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{fujita-etal-2020-pointing,
    title = "Pointing to Subwords for Generating Function Names in Source Code",
    author = "Fujita, Shogo  and
      Kamigaito, Hidetaka  and
      Takamura, Hiroya  and
      Okumura, Manabu",
    editor = "Scott, Donia  and
      Bel, Nuria  and
      Zong, Chengqing",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.28/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.28",
    pages = "316--327"
}