PathMiner

PathMiner: A library for mining of path-based representations of code

Kovalenko, V.V. (TU Delft Software Engineering)
Bogomolov, Egor (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
Bryksin, Timofey (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
Bacchelli, A. (University of Zürich)

2019-05-01

One recent, significant advance in modeling source code for machine learning algorithms has been the introduction of path-based representation - an approach consisting in representing a snippet of code as a collection of paths from its syntax tree. Such representation efficiently captures the structure of code, which, in turn, carries its semantics and other information. Building the path-based representation involves parsing the code and extracting the paths from its syntax tree; these steps build up to a substantial technical job. With no common reusable toolkit existing for this task, the burden of mining diverts the focus of researchers from the essential work and hinders newcomers in the field of machine learning on code. In this paper, we present PathMiner - an open-source library for mining path-based representations of code. PathMiner is fast, flexible, well-tested, and easily extensible to support input code in any common programming language. Preprint [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2595271]; released tool [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2595257].

Ast path
Code2Vec
Machine learning on code
Mining tool
Path based representation

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8b32aa08-3736-4171-ac36-b43ea24c0ca4

https://doi.org/10.1109/MSR.2019.00013

IEEE

978-1-7281-3370-6

2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)

16th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2019, 2019-05-26 → 2019-05-27, Montreal, Canada

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conference paper

© 2019 V.V. Kovalenko, Egor Bogomolov, Timofey Bryksin, A. Bacchelli