Source Code Retrieval using Conceptual Similarity
Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 2004
We propose a method for retrieving segments of source code from a large repository. The method is based on conceptual modeling of the code, combining information extracted from the structure of the code and standard informationdistance measures. Our results show an improvement over traditional retrieval models, indicating that, for this type of highly-structured documents, usage of structure is indeed beneficial for retrieval.