Learning from Source Code - Microsoft Research

Over the last five years, deep learning-based methods have revolutionised a wide range of applications, for example those requiring understanding of pictures, speech and natural language. For computer scientists, a naturally arising question is whether computers learn to understand source code? It appears to be a trivial question at first glance because programming languages indeed are designed to be understood by computers. However, many software bugs are in fact instances of Do what I mean, not what I wrote. In other words, small typos can have big consequences.