NeurIPS 2020

Unsupervised Translation of Programming Languages


Meta Review

Reviewers agree that this paper is a significant advance in the problem of language translation. One lingering concern is with the positioning of the paper. In particular, the introduction needs to do a better job in recognizing that this paper focuses on small self-contained units of code. In order to be useful in a software engineering context, a translation tool would have to address a number of problems that are not addressed by this work, such as major differences in the design patterns used by APIs in different languages. Without a proper acknowledgment of the limitations of the approach early in the paper, this paper could make it difficult to publish follow-up work.