Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Natural-language programming

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The result was speedy keep. It already seems apparent that the nomination will not be successful. See WP:SNOW. (non-admin closure) Andrew D. (talk) 08:55, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Natural-language programming

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"Natural-language programming" is not in the Oxford English Dictionary or other dictionaries. It is difficult to establish notability because "natural language" and programming are high frequency combinations. Google ngram shows that "Natural language programming" has very low frequency [1]. Notgain (talk) 05:50, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 06:07, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 06:27, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 06:27, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy keep. Not being in a dictionary (DICTDEF anyone?) or nominator finding it difficult to search for the them is not an indication of a lack of in-depth, secondary, reliable sources. Besides the sources in the article, which probably establish notability in and of themselves, a cursory search comes up with the following well cited journal articles: Miller, Lance A. "Natural language programming: Styles, strategies, and contrasts." IBM Systems Journal 20.2 (1981): 184-215., Biermann, Alan W., Bruce W. Ballard, and Anne H. Sigmon. "An experimental study of natural language programming." International journal of man-machine studies 18.1 (1983): 71-87., Mihalcea, Rada, Hugo Liu, and Henry Lieberman. "NLP (natural language processing) for NLP (natural language programming)." International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006., Dijkstra, Edsger W. "On the foolishness of" natural language programming"." Program construction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1979. 51-53..... Which would easily satisfy notability by themselves. Icewhiz (talk) 06:31, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Also speedy keep. It's a poor article, but did the nominator make any effort at WP:BEFORE? Andy Dingley (talk) 08:36, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I tried WP:BEFORE. As it is currently written, the article is vague and confusing, and poorly sourced. Its not really a standalone topic and would be best covered in the context of history of High-level programming language and/or Natural language processing. Used keywords such as "Programming in natural language", "Naturalistic programming", "Programming with natural language". Of those articles mentioned above, none establish notability in and of themselves. Miller 1983 is cited in 57 in Web of Science. You'd expect to have many more citations than that to justify its own article. Dijkstra is notable himself but this article does not have many citations. See a recent survey of naturalistic tools in the highest ranking journal ACM Computing Surveys, Oscar Pulido-Prieto and Ulises Juárez-Martínez. 2017. A Survey of Naturalistic Programming Technologies. ACM Comput. Surv. 50, 5, Article 70 (September 2017), 35 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3109481". Maybe a redirect would have been better than deletion. Notgain (talk) 10:28, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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