Studying the Difference Between Natural and Programming Language Corpora

no code implementations • 6 Jun 2018 • Casey Casalnuovo, Kenji Sagae, Prem Devanbu

Code corpora, as observed in large software systems, are now known to be far more repetitive and predictable than natural language corpora.

Do People Prefer "Natural" code?

no code implementations • 8 Oct 2019 • Casey Casalnuovo, Kevin Lee, Hulin Wang, Prem Devanbu, Emily Morgan

Natural code is known to be very repetitive (much more so than natural language corpora); furthermore, this repetitiveness persists, even after accounting for the simpler syntax of code.

Language Modelling