Abstract

In this chapter, we will apply the tree-based convolutional neural network (TBCNN) to the source code of programming languages, which we call programming language processing. In fact, programming language processing is a hot research topic in the field of software engineering; it has also aroused growing interest in the artificial intelligence community. A distinct characteristic of a program is that it contains rich, explicit, and complicated structural information, necessitating more intensive modeling of structures. In this chapter, we propose a TBCNN variant for programming language processing, where a convolution kernel is designed for programs’ abstract syntax trees. We show the effectiveness of TBCNN in two different program analysis tasks: classifying programs according to functionality, and detecting code snippets of certain patterns. TBCNN outperforms baseline methods, including several neural models for NLP.

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