Introducing natural language program analysis

Lori Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker, David Shepherd, Emily Hill, Zachary P. Fry, Kishen Maloor
2007 Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering - PASTE '07  
This research group presentation focuses on our work in extracting and utilizing natural language clues from source code to improve software maintenance tools. We demonstrate the valuable information that can be gained from a software system's identifiers, literals, and comments. We then present an overview of our extraction process, program representation, and a set of tools we have developed using this natural language program analysis.
doi:10.1145/1251535.1251538 dblp:conf/paste/PollockVSHFM07 fatcat:gqerfkoixjfldgtkx2a72f4ss4