TagNN: A Code Tag Generation Technology for Resource Retrieval from Open-Source Big Data

Abstract

With the vigorous development of open-source software, a huge number of open-source projects and open-source codes have been accumulated in open-source big data, which contains a wealth of code resources. However, effectively and efficiently retrieving the relevant code snippets in such a large amount of open-source big data is an extremely difficult problem. There are usually large gaps between the user’s natural language description and the open-source code snippets. In this paper, we propose a novel code tag generation and code retrieval approach named TagNN, which combines software engineering empirical knowledge and a deep learning algorithm. The experimental results show that our method has good effects on code tag generation and code snippet retrieval.