Title: SmartPaste: Learning to Adapt Source Code,
Abstract: Deep Neural Networks have been shown to succeed at a range of natural
language tasks such as machine translation and text summarization. While tasks
on source code (ie, formal languages) have been considered recently, most work
in this area does not attempt to capitalize on the unique opportunities offered
by its known syntax and structure. In this work, we introduce SmartPaste, a
first task that requires to use such information. The task is a variant of the
program repair problem that requires to adapt a given (pasted) snippet of code
to surrounding, existing source code. As first solutions, we design a set of
deep neural models that learn to represent the context of each variable
location and variable usage in a data flow-sensitive way. Our evaluation
suggests that our models can learn to solve the SmartPaste task in many cases,
achieving 58.6% accuracy, while learning meaningful representation of variable
usages.