Syntax errors just aren't natural: Improving error reporting with language models

11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2014 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 252-261

  Campbell, Joshua Charles ^a   Hindle, Abram ^a   Amaral, José Nelson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Error location; Language; N grams; Naturalness; NLP; Syntax

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ERRORS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ERROR LOCATION; LANGUAGE; N-GRAMS; NATURALNESS; SYNTAX;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84920692937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2597073.2597102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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