From Natural Language Specifications to Program Input Parsers

We present a method for automatically generating input parsers from English specifications of input file formats. We use a Bayesian generative model to capture relevant natural language phenomena and translate the English specification into a specification tree, which is then translated into a C++ i...

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Main Authors: Lei, Tao (Contributor), Long, Fan (Contributor), Barzilay, Regina (Contributor), Rinard, Martin C. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013-07-22T15:40:26Z.
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