On the naturalness of software

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 837-847

  Hindle, Abram ^a   Barr, Earl T ^a   Su, Zhendong ^a   Gabel, Mark ^b   Devanbu, Premkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

code completion; code suggestion; language models; n gram; natural language processing

Indexed keywords

CODE SUGGESTION; DAILY LIVES; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; LANGUAGE MODEL; N-GRAM; N-GRAM MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUESTION ANSWERING; SHAKESPEARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELS; TEXT MINING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA MINING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84864230071     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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