Language to code: Learning semantic parsers for if-This-Then-That recipes

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Using natural language to write programs is a touchstone problem for computational linguistics. We present an approach that learns to map natural-language descriptions of simple "if-Then" rules to executable code. By training and testing on a large corpus of naturally-occurring programs (called "recipes") and their natural language descriptions, we demonstrate the ability to effectively map language to code. We compare a number of semantic parsing approaches on the highly noisy training data collected from ordinary users, and find that loosely synchronous systems perform best.

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Quirk, C., Mooney, R., & Galley, M. (2015). Language to code: Learning semantic parsers for if-This-Then-That recipes. In ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference (Vol. 1, pp. 878–888). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/v1/p15-1085

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