#Where to watch overflow code

It then outlines two different approaches the researchers want to experiment with during the course of the project.

#Where to watch overflow code

The paper goes on to present a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model incorporating code and using annotations to distinguish between code and text. Intuitively, this follows from the fact that coding standards and idiomatic code renders code snippets more similar than natural language text, despite differences in individual coding style. The paper states that the overlap in the question title and text would easily elude an ordinary text based classifier but that inspection of the code reveals that the questions are in fact quite similar, commenting: The paper presents this example of two questions marked as duplicates by Stack Overflow moderators. We believe that, in addition to using text content, we can leverage the large number of code snippets available on sites like stackoverflow to detect duplicates. Whereas previous research in duplicate question detection has focused on the text content of questions, they argue that little attention has been paid to the accompanying code which they want to leverage: They also deter users from answering questions. In the paper Mining Duplicate Questions of Stack Overflow which can be accessed via arvix the researchers explain that duplicate questions on CQAs such as Stack Overflow increase the number of irrelevant search results forcing users to search longer. Tackling duplicate questions is therefore an important step towards improving quality of CQAs. Duplicate questions have a crippling effect on the quality of these sites. There has a been a significant rise in the use of Community Question Answering sites (CQAs) over the last decade owing primarily to their ability to leverage the wisdom of the crowd. The researchers at Carnegie Mellon who propose two new AI-based approaches to identifying duplicate questions start from the premise that: Perhaps this is too much to ask of AI at the moment. What is really needed is some one to curate the database that is Stack Overflow, weed it, prune it, merge answers into something complete. Three years ago, in an report introducing a fledgling tool that was attempting to help find relevant answers which although promising doesn't seem to have progressed since, I reached the conclusion: As of March 2021 it comprised 21 million questions and 31 million answers.

Here is yet another use case for neural networks - this time to identify duplicate questions on Stack Overflow so as to eliminate them, thereby improving the quality of the resource.įinding helpful information on Stack Overflow is difficult because there is so much of it. Using AI For Duplicate Question Detection On Stack Overflow