@inproceedings{beau-crabbe-2022-impact,
    title = "The impact of lexical and grammatical processing on generating code from natural language",
    author = {Beau, Nathana{\"e}l  and
      Crabb{\'e}, Benoit},
    editor = "Muresan, Smaranda  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Villavicencio, Aline",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022",
    month = may,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Dublin, Ireland",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2022.findings-acl.173/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.173",
    pages = "2204--2214",
    abstract = "Considering the seq2seq architecture of Yin and Neubig (2018) for natural language to code translation, we identify four key components of importance: grammatical constraints, lexical preprocessing, input representations, and copy mechanisms. To study the impact of these components, we use a state-of-the-art architecture that relies on BERT encoder and a grammar-based decoder for which a formalization is provided. The paper highlights the importance of the lexical substitution component in the current natural language to code systems."
}