Message from Program Chairs: NLBSE 2023

Welcome to the 2nd edition of the International Workshop on Natural Language-Based Software Engineering (NLBSE). The potential of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) to support developers and engineers in a wide number of software engineering-related tasks (e.g., requirements engineering, extraction of knowledge and patterns from the software artifacts, summarization and prioritization of development and maintenance activities, etc.) is increasingly evident. Furthermore, the current availability of libraries (e.g., NLTK, CoreNLP, and fasttext) and models (e.g., BERT) that allow efficiently and easily dealing with low-level aspects of natural language processing and representation, pushed more and more researchers to closely work with industry to attempt to solve software engineers' real-world problems.