The application of machine learning algorithms to source code has grown in the past years. Since these algorithms are quite sensitive to input data, it is not surprising that researchers experiment with input representations. Nowadays, a popular starting point to represent code is abstract syntax trees (ASTs). Abstract syntax trees have been used for a long time in various software engineering domains, and in particular in IDEs. The API of modern IDEs allows to manipulate and traverse ASTs, resolve references between code elements, etc. Such algorithms can enrich ASTs with new data and therefore may be useful in ML-based code analysis. In this work, we present PSIMiner - a tool for processing PSI trees from the IntelliJ Platform. PSI trees contain code syntax trees as well as functions to work with them, and therefore can be used to enrich code representation using static analysis algorithms of modern IDEs. To showcase this idea, we use our tool to infer types of identifiers in Java ASTs and extend the code2seq model for the method name prediction problem.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 IEEE/ACM 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES (MSR 2021)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages13-17
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781728187105
ISBN (Print)9781728187105
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2021
Event18th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 17 May 202119 May 2021

Publication series

NameIEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
PublisherIEEE COMPUTER SOC
ISSN (Print)2160-1852

Conference

Conference18th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period17/05/2119/05/21

    Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

    Research areas

  • Code representation, Data mining, Software Engineering

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