87 citations · 158 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
cs.SE2020★ 87 cited
Opportunities and Challenges in Code Search Tools
Chao Liu, Xin Xia, David Lo +3
Code search is a core software engineering task. Effective code search tools can help developers substantially improve their software development efficiency and effectiveness. In r…
cs.SE2020★ 42 cited
On the Replicability and Reproducibility of Deep Learning in Software Engineering
Chao Liu, Cuiyun Gao, Xin Xia +3
Deep learning (DL) techniques have gained significant popularity among software engineering (SE) researchers in recent years. This is because they can often solve many SE challenge…
cs.SE2020★ 29 cited
CodeMatcher: Searching Code Based on Sequential Semantics of Important Query Words
Chao Liu, Xin Xia, David Lo +3
To accelerate software development, developers frequently search and reuse existing code snippets from a large-scale codebase, e.g., GitHub. Over the years, researchers proposed ma…