JEMMA: An extensible Java dataset for ML4Code applications

• Published in: Empirical software engineering : an international journal Vol. 28; no. 2; p. 54
• Main Authors: Karmakar, Anjan, Allamanis, Miltiadis, Robbes, Romain
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01-03-2023; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Verlag
• Subjects: Compilers; Computer Science; Datasets; Empirical analysis; Experimentation; Extensibility; Interpreters; Machine learning; Programming Languages; Representations; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Source code; Empirical datasets; Machine learning; Software engineering
• ISSN: 1382-3256; 1573-7616
• DOI: 10.1007/s10664-022-10275-7

Machine Learning for Source Code (ML4Code) is an active research field in which extensive experimentation is needed to discover how to best use source code’s richly structured information. With this in mind, we introduce JEMMA: An Extensible Java Dataset for ML4Code Applications, which is a large-scale, diverse, and high-quality dataset targeted at ML4Code. Our goal with JEMMA is to lower the barrier to entry in ML4Code by providing the building blocks to experiment with source code models and tasks. JEMMA comes with a considerable amount of pre-processed information such as metadata, representations (e.g., code tokens, ASTs, graphs), and several properties (e.g., metrics, static analysis results) for 50,000 Java projects from the 50K-C dataset, with over 1.2 million classes and over 8 million methods. JEMMA is also extensible allowing users to add new properties and representations to the dataset, and evaluate tasks on them. Thus, JEMMA becomes a workbench that researchers can use to experiment with novel representations and tasks operating on source code. To demonstrate the utility of the dataset, we also report results from two empirical studies on our data, ultimately showing that significant work lies ahead in the design of context-aware source code models that can reason over a broader network of source code entities in a software project—the very task that JEMMA is designed to help with.