Neural Code Search: ML-based code search using natural language queries

Engineers work best when they can easily find code examples to guide them on particular coding tasks. For some questions -- for example, "How to programmatically close or hide the Android soft keyboard?" But questions specific to proprietary code or APIs (or code written in less common programming languages) need a different solution, since they are not typically discussed in those forums. To address this need, we've developed a code search tool that applies natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) techniques directly to source code text. This tool, called Neural Code Search (NCS), accepts natural language queries and returns relevant code fragments retrieved directly from the code corpus.