Neural generation of regular expressions from natural language with minimal domain knowledge

Nicholas Locascio, Karthik Narasimhan, Eduardo DeLeon, Nate Kushman, Regina Barzilay

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Abstract

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 corpus1 of regular expression, natural language pairs. Our resulting model achieves a performance gain of 19.6% over previous state-of-the-art models.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2016 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages1918-1923
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781945626258
StatePublished - Jan 1 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2016 - Austin, United States
Duration: Nov 1 2016Nov 5 2016

Publication series

NameEMNLP 2016 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings

Conference

Conference2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period11/1/1611/5/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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