Challenge: Semantic parsing aims to map a natural language sentence into a machine executable formal representation.
Approach: They propose a structure-aware self-attention language model to capture structural information of target representations and propose incorporating it into a seq2seq model.
Outcome: The proposed model improves the baseline model on four semantic parsing and Python code generation tasks.

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