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IEEE Xplore Abstract - API specification-based function search engine using natural language query

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Tran, DinhHuy ; Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering, Ho Chi Minh city University of Technology, Vietnam 268 Ly Thuong Kiet, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam ;
Nguyen, HuaPhung

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Programmers nearly always use existing functions while developing their applications. However, the
functions have grown more numerous and more diverse while the applications have grown more
dependent on them. Thus, it's difficult for programmers to find what functions they want and know how
to call those functions [1]. This paper present two novel approaches to address these problems. The
first is the approach to find right functions based on the API specification. This approach can search
suitable functions by their functionalities described in the API specification. The second is approach to
automatically generate code for function call. In the second approach, programmer can call a function
by natural language query. We have implemented a function search engine for Java, called FSE.
Besides, we have also performed some evaluations to demonstrate that FSE is better than the existing
online search engines in precision and recall.

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Computing, Management and Telecommunications (ComManTel), 2013 International Conference on

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21-24 Jan. 2013
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