Learning Deep Semantic Model for Code Search using CodeSearchNet Corpus

Understand

Semantic code search is the task of retrieving relevant code snippet given a natural language query.

• Different from typical information retrieval tasks, code search requires to bridge the semantic gap between the programming language and natural language, for better describing intrinsic concepts and semantics.
• Recently, deep neural network for code search has been a hot research topic.
• Typical methods for neural code search first represent the code snippet and query text as separate embeddings, and then use vector distance (e.g.