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Background: During software maintenance and development, the comprehension of program code is key to success. High-quality comments can help us better understand programs, but they're often missing or outmoded in today's programs. Automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yuxiang Zhu , Minxue Pan

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

Current abstractive summarization models either suffer from a lack of clear interpretability or provide incomplete rationales by only highlighting parts of the source document. To this end, we propose the Summarization Program (SP), an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Swarnadeep Saha , Shiyue Zhang , Peter Hase , Mohit Bansal

(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

As large-scale graphs become more widespread, more and more computational challenges with extracting, processing, and interpreting large graph data are being exposed. It is therefore natural to search for ways to summarize these expansive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Nasrin Shabani , Jia Wu , Amin Beheshti , Quan Z. Sheng , Jin Foo , Venus Haghighi , Ambreen Hanif , Maryam Shahabikargar

Automatic code review (ACR), which can relieve the costs of manual inspection, is an indispensable and essential task in software engineering. To deal with ACR, existing work is to serialize the abstract syntax tree (AST). However, making…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-17 B. Wu , B. Liang , X. Zhang

Text summarization aims to generate a headline or a short summary consisting of the major information of the source text. Recent studies employ the sequence-to-sequence framework to encode the input with a neural network and generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Haiyang Xu , Yahao He , Kun Han , Junwen Chen , Xiangang Li

Code completion has become an essential component of integrated development environments. Contemporary code completion methods rely on the abstract syntax tree (AST) to generate syntactically correct code. However, they cannot fully capture…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Yanlin Wang , Hui Li

Graph streams, which refer to the graph with edges being updated sequentially in a form of a stream, have wide applications such as cyber security, social networks and transportation networks. This paper studies the problem of summarizing…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Nan Tang , Qing Chen , Prasenjit Mitra

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

Deep learning is being used extensively in a variety of software engineering tasks, e.g., program classification and defect prediction. Although the technique eliminates the required process of feature engineering, the construction of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Zhehao Zhao , Bo Yang , Ge Li , Huai Liu , Zhi Jin

Automatic Text Summarization strategies have been successfully employed to digest text collections and extract its essential content. Usually, summaries are generated using textual corpora that belongs to the same domain area where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Vinicius Woloszyn , Guilherme Medeiros Machado , Leandro Krug Wives , José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira

The continuous and rapid growth of highly interconnected datasets, which are both voluminous and complex, calls for the development of adequate processing and analytical techniques. One method for condensing and simplifying such datasets is…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Angela Bonifati , Stefania Dumbrava , Haridimos Kondylakis

Source code summarization involves creating brief descriptions of source code in natural language. These descriptions are a key component of software documentation such as JavaDocs. Automatic code summarization is a prized target of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Sakib Haque , Zachary Eberhart , Aakash Bansal , Collin McMillan

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

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

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

We explore the applicability of Graph Neural Networks in learning the nuances of source code from a security perspective. Specifically, whether signatures of vulnerabilities in source code can be learned from its graph representation, in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Sahil Suneja , Yunhui Zheng , Yufan Zhuang , Jim Laredo , Alessandro Morari

Abridged: Programmer attention represents the visual focus of programmers on parts of the source code in pursuit of programming tasks. We conducted an in-depth human study with 10 Java programmers, where each programmer generated summaries…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Robert Wallace , Aakash Bansal , Zachary Karas , Ningzhi Tang , Yu Huang , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Collin McMillan

Information visualizations such as bar charts and line charts are very popular for exploring data and communicating insights. Interpreting and making sense of such visualizations can be challenging for some people, such as those who are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jason Obeid , Enamul Hoque