{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/function-assistant-a-tool-for-nl-querying-of","title":"Function Assistant: A Tool for NL Querying of APIs","arxiv_id":"1706.00468","date":"2017-06-01","proceeding":"EMNLP 2017 9","authors":["Kyle Richardson","Jonas Kuhn"],"abstract":"In this paper, we describe Function Assistant, a lightweight Python-based\ntoolkit for querying and exploring source code repositories using natural\nlanguage. The toolkit is designed to help end-users of a target API quickly\nfind information about functions through high-level natural language queries\nand descriptions. For a given text query and background API, the tool finds\ncandidate functions by performing a translation from the text to known\nrepresentations in the API using the semantic parsing approach of Richardson\nand Kuhn (2017). Translations are automatically learned from example text-code\npairs in example APIs. The toolkit includes features for building translation\npipelines and query engines for arbitrary source code projects. To explore this\nlast feature, we perform new experiments on 27 well-known Python projects\nhosted on Github.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00468v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.00468v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"function-assistant-a-tool-for-nl-querying-of","repo_url":"https://github.com/yakazimir/Code-Datasets","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"function-assistant-a-tool-for-nl-querying-of","repo_url":"https://github.com/yakazimir/zubr_public","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"natural-language-queries","task_name":"Natural Language Queries"},{"task_slug":"semantic-parsing","task_name":"Semantic Parsing"},{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}