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Code summarization is the task of generating readable summaries that are semantically meaningful and can accurately describe the presumed task of a software. Program comprehension has become one of the most tedious tasks for knowledge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Piyush Shrivastava

One of the first steps to perform most of the software maintenance activities, such as updating features or fixing bugs, is to have a relatively good understanding of the program's source code which is often written by other developers. A…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Sahar Badihi , Abbas Heydarnoori

Comments are an integral part of software development; they are natural language descriptions associated with source code elements. Understanding explicit associations can be useful in improving code comprehensibility and maintaining the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Sheena Panthaplackel , Milos Gligoric , Raymond J. Mooney , Junyi Jessy Li

Automatic summarisation is a popular approach to reduce a document to its main arguments. Recent research in the area has focused on neural approaches to summarisation, which can be very data-hungry. However, few large datasets exist and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Ed Collins , Isabelle Augenstein , Sebastian Riedel

Source code summarizing is a task of writing short, natural language descriptions of source code behavior during run time. Such summaries are extremely useful for software development and maintenance but are expensive to manually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Vivek Gupta

Code summaries are brief natural language descriptions of source code pieces. The main purpose of code summarization is to assist developers in understanding code and to reduce documentation workload. In this paper, we design a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Rui Xie , Wei Ye , Jinan Sun , Shikun Zhang

Duplicated code has a negative impact on the quality of software systems and should be detected at least. In this paper, we discuss an approach that improves source code retrieval using the structural information about the programs. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Yoshihisa Udagawa

Automatic summarisation has been used efficiently in recent years to condense texts, conversations, audio, code, and various other artefacts. A range of methods, from simple template-based summaries to complex machine learning techniques --…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Najam Nazar , Sameer Sikka , Christoph Treude

(Source) Code summarization aims to automatically generate summaries/comments for a given code snippet in the form of natural language. Such summaries play a key role in helping developers understand and maintain source code. Existing code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Yuchen Chen , Quanjun Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Tingxu Han , Yifei Ge , Yudu You , Bin Luo

There has been an increase of interest in code search using natural language. Assessing the performance of such code search models can be difficult without a readily available evaluation suite. In this paper, we present an evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Hongyu Li , Seohyun Kim , Satish Chandra

Context: Software systems are in continuous evolution through source code changes to fixing bugs, adding new functionalities and improving the internal architecture. All these practices are recorded in the version history, which can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Leandro Ungari Cayres , Bruno Santos de Lima , Rogério Eduardo Garcia

Automatic summarization has consistently attracted attention due to its versatility and wide application in various downstream tasks. Despite its popularity, we find that annotation efforts have largely been disjointed, and have lacked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Noam Dahan , Gabriel Stanovsky

Code summarization, the task of generating useful comments given the code, has long been of interest. Most of the existing code summarization models are trained and validated on widely-used code comment benchmark datasets. However, little…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Lin Shi , Fangwen Mu , Xiao Chen , Song Wang , Junjie Wang , Ye Yang , Ge Li , Xin Xia , Qing Wang

Automated code summarization is a long-standing goal for code comprehension. This task automatically generates documentation using a given method. Deep Learning (DL)-based approaches have been proven beneficial for various software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Antonio Vitale , Antonio Mastropaolo , Rocco Oliveto , Massimiliano Di Penta , Simone Scalabrino

This paper presents a procedure for and evaluation of using a semantic similarity metric as a loss function for neural source code summarization. Code summarization is the task of writing natural language descriptions of source code. Neural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Chia-Yi Su , Collin McMillan

Automated source code summarization is a task that generates summarized information about the purpose, usage, and--or implementation of methods and classes to support understanding of these code entities. Multiple approaches and techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-30 AmirHossein Naghshzan , Latifa Guerrouj , Olga Baysal

Automated source code summarization is a popular software engineering research topic wherein machine translation models are employed to "translate" code snippets into relevant natural language descriptions. Most evaluations of such models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Junayed Mahmud , Fahim Faisal , Raihan Islam Arnob , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Kevin Moran

Code summarization generates brief natural language description given a source code snippet, while code retrieval fetches relevant source code given a natural language query. Since both tasks aim to model the association between natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Wei Ye , Rui Xie , Jinglei Zhang , Tianxiang Hu , Xiaoyin Wang , Shikun Zhang

Semantic code search is the task of retrieving relevant code given a natural language query. While related to other information retrieval tasks, it requires bridging the gap between the language used in code (often abbreviated and highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Hamel Husain , Ho-Hsiang Wu , Tiferet Gazit , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt

Since programming concepts do not match their syntactic representations, code search is a very tedious task. For instance in Java or C, array doesn't match [], so using "array" as a query, one cannot find what they are looking for. Often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Deepak Thukral , Darvesh Punia