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Figure6:Evaluationofsinglepointsuggestionsforvariablesatrankk=1averagedacrossallprojects.The“features”and“no-features”modelslacksuf cientcon dencetomakesuggestionsatthehighersuggestionfrequencies.

slightlyasthepredictioncon dencedecreases.Interestingly,thetoken-levelmodelsareunabletomakeanysuggestionsbeyondasuggestionfrequencyof15%.Forallothertokens,thetoken-levelmethodsreturnthespecialUNKtoken,indicatingthatthemodelsexpectaneologismwhichtheycannotpredict.Incontrast,thesubtokenmodelssustainagoodF1score,evenforlargesugges-tionfrequencies.Thisisduetothefactthatthesubtokenmodelslearnnamingconventionsatthesubtokenlevel,capturinglinguis-ticpatterns[5]suchasthatspeci cfunctionsmaycontainvarioussubtokense.g.get,set,has,is.

Table4showsafulllistoftheeffectthateachfeaturehasontheperformanceoftheneuralmodelsatrankk=5.Asexpected,thereturntype,thesubtokensoftheclasswherethemethodisdeclaredinandthesubtokensofthevariablesandmethodinvocationsinsidethatmethodprovidethemostsubstantialperformanceincreases.Basedontheseresults,weconcludethatweareabletosuggestaccuratemethodnamesandthatoursuggestionsarebetterthanpreviousapproaches.WethereforeanswerRQ3intheaf rmative.ClassDe nitionsAccuracyIntheprevioussection,theperfor-manceoftheneuralmodelonsuggestingnamesformethoddecla-rationswasshown.Inthissection,weevaluatetheneuralmodel

whenmakingsuggestionsforclassde nitions.Figure7bshowstheperformanceofthen-gramlanguagemodelandtheneuralmodelsforclassnamede nitions.Incontrasttothepreviousmodels,thetoken-levelmodelscannotmakeanysuggestions,alwayssuggest-ingtheUNKtoken.However,thesubtokenmodelisabletomakesuggestionsevenathighsuggestionfrequenciesmaintaininganF1scoreofmorethan40%outperformingthen-grammodel.

Thankstotheabilityofthesubtokenmodeltosuggestneologismsthesubtoken-levelmodelisabletosuggestclassde nitionnamesthatithasneverseenbefore,withagoodF1score.Table4showsthatthesubtokensofthesuperclassandinterfacesthatatypeisimplementingareinformativeaboutthenameoftheclass.Addition-ally,whencombiningalltheavailablefeatures,wegetasigni cantincreaseinF1score.Thus,weansweryestoRQ4aswell;weareabletosuggestaccuratetype(class)names.

6.RELATEDWORK

NamingInSoftwareEngineeringNamingincodehasachievedafairamountofresearchattention.Therehasbeenpriorresearchintoidentifyingpoorlynamedartifacts.HøstandØstvold[26]de-velopedatechniqueforautomaticallyinferringnamingrulesformethodsbasedonthereturntype,control ow,http://www.77cn.com.cningtheserulestheyfoundandreported“namingbugs”byidentifyingmethodswhosenamescontainedruleviolations.Ar-naoudovaetal.presentedacatalogof“linguisticanti-patterns”incodethatleadtodevelopersmisunderstandingcodeandbuiltadetectorofsuchanti-patterns[5].Binkleyusedpartofspeechtag-gingto nd eldnamesthatviolateacceptedpatterns,e.g.the eldcreate_mp4beginswithaverbandimpliesanactionwhichisacommonpatternforamethodratherthana eld[11].Ourworkiscomplementary,aswemakesuggestionsfornameswhennamingbugsarefound,anti-patternsoccur,ornamingrulesareviolated.DeLucioetal.attemptedtoautomaticallynamesourcecodeartifactsusingLSIandLDAandfoundthatthisapproachdoesn’tworkaswellassimplermethodssuchasusingwordsfromclassand

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