Code Search Debiasing:Improve Search Results beyond Overall Ranking Performance

arXiv:2311.14901v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Code search engine is an essential tool in software development. Many code search methods have sprung up, focusing on the overall ranking performance of code search. In this paper, we study code search from another perspective by analyzing the bias of code search models. Biased code search engines provide poor user experience, even though they show promising overall performance. Due to different development conventions (e.g., prefer long queries or abbreviations), some programmers will find the …

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