Challenge: Existing techniques for parsing natural-language utterances are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, requiring large amounts of labelled data and expensive human annotation.
Approach: They propose to enhance the adversarial robustness of a prompt-based semantic parser based on a language model trained on code by constructing a set of demonstration examples.
Outcome: The proposed method can be enhanced without significant amounts of labelled data or expensive human annotations on in-domain semantic parsing data.

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