Explain-then-Translate: An Analysis on Improving Program Translation with Self-generated Explanations

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Explain-then-Translate: An Analysis on Improving Program Translation with Self-generated Explanations
المؤلفون: Tang, Zilu, Agarwal, Mayank, Shypula, Alex, Wang, Bailin, Wijaya, Derry, Chen, Jie, Kim, Yoon
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computation and Language
الوصف: This work explores the use of self-generated natural language explanations as an intermediate step for code-to-code translation with language models. Across three types of explanations and 19 programming languages constructed from the MultiPL-E dataset, we find the explanations to be particularly effective in the zero-shot case, improving performance by 12% on average. Improvements with natural language explanations are particularly pronounced on difficult programs. We release our dataset, code, and canonical solutions in all 19 languages.
Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables, 48 pages total. To be published in EMNLP Findings 2023
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07070
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2311.07070
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv