From query to usable code
Di Yang, Aftab Mustansir Hussain, Cristina Videira Lopes · 2016
Enriched by natural language texts, Stack Overflow code snippets are an invaluable code-centric knowledge base of small units of source code. Besides being useful for software developers, these annotated snippets can potentially serve as the basis for automated tools that provide working code solutions to specific natural language queries.