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Code comments are significantly helpful in comprehending software programs and also aid developers to save a great deal of time in software maintenance. Code comment generation aims to automatically predict comments in natural language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Ramin Shahbazi , Fatemeh Fard

Code comments are important for program comprehension, development, and maintenance tasks. Given the varying standards for code comments, and their unstructured or semi-structured nature, developers get easily confused (especially novice…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Pooja Rani , Mathias Birrer , Sebastiano Panichella , Mohammad Ghafari , Oscar Nierstrasz

Semantic code search is the task of retrieving a code snippet given a textual description of its functionality. Recent work has been focused on using similarity metrics between neural embeddings of text and code. However, current language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Shushan Arakelyan , Anna Hakhverdyan , Miltiadis Allamanis , Luis Garcia , Christophe Hauser , Xiang Ren

Understanding code is challenging, especially when working in new and complex development environments. Code comments and documentation can help, but are typically scarce or hard to navigate. Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Daye Nam , Andrew Macvean , Vincent Hellendoorn , Bogdan Vasilescu , Brad Myers

Large language models (LLMs) are often augmented with tools to solve complex tasks. By generating code snippets and executing them through task-specific Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), they can offload certain functions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Lifan Yuan , Yangyi Chen , Xingyao Wang , Yi R. Fung , Hao Peng , Heng Ji

Neural machine translation models are used to automatically generate a document from given source code since this can be regarded as a machine translation task. Source code summarization is one of the components for automatic document…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Yusuke Shido , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Akihiro Yamamoto , Atsushi Miyamoto , Tadayuki Matsumura

Newcomers to a software project must overcome many barriers before they can successfully place their first code contribution, and they often struggle to find information that is relevant to them. In this work, we argue that much of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Christoph Treude , Marco A. Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

Humans write code in a fundamentally interactive manner and rely on constant execution feedback to correct errors, resolve ambiguities, and decompose tasks. While LLMs have recently exhibited promising coding capabilities, current coding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 John Yang , Akshara Prabhakar , Karthik Narasimhan , Shunyu Yao

In the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, software development has emerged as a key area of innovation. Despite the plethora of general-purpose AI assistants available, their effectiveness diminishes in complex,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Gustavo Pinto , Cleidson de Souza , Thayssa Rocha , Igor Steinmacher , Alberto de Souza , Edward Monteiro

Representing source code in a generic input format is crucial to automate software engineering tasks, e.g., applying machine learning algorithms to extract information. Visualizing code representations can further enable human experts to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Yuejun Guo , Seifeddine Bettaieb , Qiang Hu , Yves Le Traon , Qiang Tang

Traditionally, computer programming has been the prerogative of professional developers using textual programming languages such as C, Java, or Python. Low-code programming promises an alternative: letting citizen developers create programs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Martin Hirzel

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable ability to generate code, yet their outputs often violate syntactic or semantic constraints when guided only through natural language prompts. We introduce TreeCoder, the most general and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Henrijs Princis , Arindam Sharma , Cristina David

In the domain of software development, LLMs have been utilized to automate tasks such as code translation, where source code from one programming language is translated to another while preserving its functionality. However, LLMs often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Manojit Chakraborty , Madhusudan Ghosh , Rishabh Gupta

In this work, we discuss a recently popular type of recommender system: an LLM-based coding assistant. Connecting the task of providing code recommendations in multiple formats to traditional RecSys challenges, we outline several…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jan Hartman , Rishabh Mehrotra , Hitesh Sagtani , Dominic Cooney , Rafal Gajdulewicz , Beyang Liu , Julie Tibshirani , Quinn Slack

User interface to code (UI2Code) aims to generate executable code that can faithfully reconstruct a given input UI. Prior work focuses largely on web pages and mobile screens, leaving app widgets underexplored. Unlike web or mobile UIs with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Houston H. Zhang , Tao Zhang , Baoze Lin , Yuanqi Xue , Yincheng Zhu , Huan Liu , Li Gu , Linfeng Ye , Ziqiang Wang , Xinxin Zuo , Yang Wang , Yuanhao Yu , Zhixiang Chi

Writing code requires significant time and effort in software development. To automate this process, researchers have made substantial progress for code generation. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jia Li , Xianjie Shi , Kechi Zhang , Ge Li , Zhi Jin , Lei Li , Huangzhao Zhang , Jia Li , Fang Liu , Yuwei Zhang , Zhengwei Tao , Yihong Dong , Yuqi Zhu , Chongyang Tao

Language documentation is inherently a time-intensive process; transcription, glossing, and corpus management consume a significant portion of documentary linguists' work. Advances in natural language processing can help to accelerate this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Graham Neubig , Patrick Littell , Chian-Yu Chen , Jean Lee , Zirui Li , Yu-Hsiang Lin , Yuyan Zhang

Developers often search for relevant code examples on the web for their programming tasks. Unfortunately, they face two major problems. First, the search is impaired due to a lexical gap between their query (task description) and the…

This paper addresses challenges of Natural Language Processing (NLP) on non-canonical multilingual data in which two or more languages are mixed. It refers to code-switching which has become more popular in our daily life and therefore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Özlem Çetinoğlu , Sarah Schulz , Ngoc Thang Vu

Determining the programming language of a source code file has been considered in the research community; it has been shown that Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms can be effective in identifying the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Kamel Alreshedy , Dhanush Dharmaretnam , Daniel M. German , Venkatesh Srinivasan , T. Aaron Gulliver