SAR: learning cross-language API mappings with little knowledge
Nghi D. Q. Bui, Yijun Yu, Lingxiao Jiang · 2019
To save effort, developers often translate programs from one programming language to another, instead of implementing it from scratch. Translating application program interfaces (APIs) used in one language to functionally equivalent ones available in another language is an important aspect of program translation. Existing approaches facilitate the translation by automatically identifying the API mappings across programming languages. However, these approaches still require large amount of parallel corpora, ranging from pairs of APIs or code fragments that are functionally equivalent, to similar code comments.