Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language with Minimal Domain Knowledge
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Locascio, Nicholas (Nicholas J.); Narasimhan, Karthik Rajagopal; De Leon, Eduardo; Kushman, Nate; Barzilay, Regina
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This paper explores the task of translating natural language queries into regular expressions which embody their meaning. In contrast to prior work, the proposed neural model does not utilize domain-specific crafting, learning
to translate directly from a parallel corpus. To fully explore the potential of neural models, we propose a methodology for collecting a large corpus of regular expression, natural language pairs. Our resulting model achieves a performance gain of 19.6% over previous state-of-the-art models.
Date issued
2016-11Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryJournal
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
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Locascio, Nicholas et al. "Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language with Minimal Domain Knowledge." Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, November 2016, Austin, Texas, Association for Computational Linguistics, November 2016. © 2016 Association for Computational Linguistics
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978-1-945626-25-8