A Survey on Natural Language Processing for Programming
Qingfu Zhu, Xianzhen Luo, Fang Liu, Cuiyun Gao, Wanxiang Che
Abstract
Natural language processing for programming aims to use NLP techniques to assist programming. It is increasingly prevalent for its effectiveness in improving productivity. Distinct from natural language, a programming language is highly structured and functional. Constructing a structure-based representation and a functionality-oriented algorithm is at the heart of program understanding and generation. In this paper, we conduct a systematic review covering tasks, datasets, evaluation methods, techniques, and models from the perspective of the structure-based and functionality-oriented property, aiming to understand the role of the two properties in each component. Based on the analysis, we illustrate unexplored areas and suggest potential directions for future work.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{zhu-etal-2024-survey,
title = "A Survey on Natural Language Processing for Programming",
author = "Zhu, Qingfu and
Luo, Xianzhen and
Liu, Fang and
Gao, Cuiyun and
Che, Wanxiang",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Kan, Min-Yen and
Hoste, Veronique and
Lenci, Alessandro and
Sakti, Sakriani and
Xue, Nianwen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
month = may,
year = "2024",
address = "Torino, Italia",
publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.149/",
pages = "1690--1704"
}