Poster: Git blame who?: Stylistic authorship attribution of small, incomplete source code fragments

Edwin Dauber, Aylin Caliskan, Richard Harang, Rachel Greenstadt

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    Abstract

    Program authorship attribution has implications for the privacy of programmers who wish to contribute code anonymously. While previous work has shown that complete files that are individually authored can be attributed, these efforts have focused on ideal data sets such as the Google Code Jam data. We explore the problem of attribution "in the wild," examining source code obtained from open source version control systems, and investigate if and how such contributions can be attributed to their authors, either individually or on a per-Account basis. In this work we show that accounts belonging to open source contributors containing short, incomplete, and typically uncompilable fragments can be effectively attributed.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Title of host publicationProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
    PublisherIEEE Computer Society
    Pages356-357
    Number of pages2
    ISBN (Electronic)9781450356633
    DOIs
    StatePublished - May 27 2018
    Event40th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018 - Gothenburg, Sweden
    Duration: May 27 2018Jun 3 2018

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
    ISSN (Print)0270-5257

    Conference

    Conference40th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018
    Country/TerritorySweden
    CityGothenburg
    Period5/27/186/3/18

    Keywords

    • Machine learning
    • Source code authorship attribution
    • Stylometry

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software

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