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Software engineering

the finding that real code is repetitive and predictable, so statistical language models can capture it as they do natural language.

In software engineering, naturalness of software refers to the finding that real code is repetitive and predictable, so statistical language models can capture it as they do natural language. This meaning comes from Hindle (2012) in 2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).[1]

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Hindle, A., Barr, E. T., Su, Z., Gabel, M., & Devanbu, P. (2012). On the naturalness of software. 2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). https://doi.org/10.1109/icse.2012.6227135

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