Tree Technology, a partner in DECODER Project, posted an article about recent R&D efforts.
Abstract: We have used Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques in tools aimed to support and improve the software development and software quality processes for Java and C/C++ languages.
The use of complex models has increased performance in many common NLP tasks, such as named entity recognition, text classification, summarisation and translation among others. Besides, transfer learning has also become an interesting option when not much labelled data is available and knowledge learnt from one problem can be applied to a new but related task. In this context, our two NLP-based source code analysis tools - namely Variable Misuse and Code Summarisation - have been conceived by and for software developers.