{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/a-deep-language-model-for-software-code","title":"A deep language model for software code","arxiv_id":"1608.02715","date":"2016-08-09","proceeding":null,"authors":["Hoa Khanh Dam","Truyen Tran","Trang Pham"],"abstract":"Existing language models such as n-grams for software code often fail to\ncapture a long context where dependent code elements scatter far apart. In this\npaper, we propose a novel approach to build a language model for software code\nto address this particular issue. Our language model, partly inspired by human\nmemory, is built upon the powerful deep learning-based Long Short Term Memory\narchitecture that is capable of learning long-term dependencies which occur\nfrequently in software code. Results from our intrinsic evaluation on a corpus\nof Java projects have demonstrated the effectiveness of our language model.\nThis work contributes to realizing our vision for DeepSoft, an end-to-end,\ngeneric deep learning-based framework for modeling software and its development\nprocess.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02715v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.02715v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"a-deep-language-model-for-software-code","repo_url":"https://github.com/D-a-r-e-k/Source-Code-Modelling","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"deep-learning","task_name":"Deep Learning"},{"task_slug":"language-modeling","task_name":"Language Modeling"},{"task_slug":"language-modelling","task_name":"Language Modelling"},{"task_slug":"model","task_name":"model"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1608.02715","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}