LUCID: Clearer Software by Integrating Natural Language Analysis into Software Engineering

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Developers spend most of their time maintaining code, with little tool support.To maintain code, one must understand it. Clear code is easier to read andunderstand, and therefore less expensive and risky to evolve and maintain; itis also notoriously difficult to write. We will help developers write clearercode to speed maintenance, and increase developer productivity. Source codeunites two channels - the programming language and natural language - todescribe algorithms. LUCID will advance the state of the art in softwareengineering by developing new analyses that exploit the interconnectionsbetween these channels to find uninformative names, stale comments, and bugsthat manifest as discrepancies between the two channels.