Exemplar: EXEcutable exaMPLes ARchive

Searching for applications that are highly relevant to development tasks is challenging because the high-level intent reflected in the descriptions of these tasks doesn’t usually match the low-level implementation details of applications. In this demo we show a novel code search engine called Exemplar (EXEcutable exaMPLes ARchive) to bridge this mismatch. Exemplar takes natural-language query that contains high-level concepts (e.g., MIME, data sets) as input, then uses information retrieval and program analysis techniques to retrieve applications that implement these concepts. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.13 [Reusable Software]: Reusable libraries General Terms Algorithms, Experimentation

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: Mark Grechanik, Chen Fu, Qing Xie, Collin McMillan, Denys Poshyvanyk, Chad M. Cumby
• Keywords: Exemplar Takes Natural-language, General Terms Algorithms, ICSE 2010, Low-level Implementation Details, Software Engineering