Programming language processing (similar to natural language processing) is a hot
research topic in the field of software engineering; it has also aroused growing interest in the
artificial intelligence community. However, different from a natural language sentence, a
program contains rich, explicit, and complicated structural information. Hence, traditional
NLP models may be inappropriate for programs. In this paper, we propose a novel tree-
based convolutional neural network (TBCNN) for programming language processing, in …