The proliferation of open-source projects has led to large amounts of source code and related artifacts: arguably, the rich and open resources associated with software--including open source repositories, Q/A sites, change histories, and communications between developers--are the richest and most detailed information resource for any technical area. Recently it has been discovered that “natural”, human-produced software has many interesting statistical regularities. As a consequence code corpora, just like
This interdisciplinary workshop will explore issues related to the statistical modeling of software corpora, including topics such as: modeling repetitiveness in source code; use of language models for the code suggestion in IDEs; using probabilistic grammars to mine programming idioms; statistical methods for type inference in a dynamically typed languages; statistical machine translation for porting applications between programming languages, or “mini-fying”Javascript; using statistical language models to
The workshop follows several earlier workshops on this topic at Microsoft Research, Dagstuhl event, and SIGSOFT FSE.