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Recent work on abstractive summarization has made progress with neural encoder-decoder architectures. However, such models are often challenged due to their lack of explicit semantic modeling of the source document and its summary. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Hardy , Andreas Vlachos

The goal of graph summarization is to represent large graphs in a structured and compact way. A graph summary based on equivalence classes preserves pre-defined features of a graph's vertex within a $k$-hop neighborhood such as the vertex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Maximilian Blasi , Manuel Freudenreich , Johannes Horvath , David Richerby , Ansgar Scherp

(Source) code summarization aims to automatically generate succinct natural language summaries for given code snippets. Such summaries play a significant role in promoting developers to understand and maintain code. Inspired by neural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Chunrong Fang , Weisong Sun , Yuchen Chen , Xiao Chen , Zhao Wei , Quanjun Zhang , Yudu You , Bin Luo , Yang Liu , Zhenyu Chen

We present a novel abstractive summarization framework that draws on the recent development of a treebank for the Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). In this framework, the source text is parsed to a set of AMR graphs, the graphs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Fei Liu , Jeffrey Flanigan , Sam Thomson , Norman Sadeh , Noah A. Smith

We introduce graphcodes, a novel multi-scale summary of the topological properties of a dataset that is based on the well-established theory of persistent homology. Graphcodes handle datasets that are filtered along two real-valued scale…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Michael Kerber , Florian Russold

We propose a novel method for code summarization utilizing Heterogeneous Code Representations (HCRs) and our specially designed HierarchyNet. HCRs effectively capture essential code features at lexical, syntactic, and semantic levels by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Minh Huynh Nguyen , Nghi D. Q. Bui , Truong Son Hy , Long Tran-Thanh , Tien N. Nguyen

Neural code summarization leverages deep learning models to automatically generate brief natural language summaries of code snippets. The development of Transformer models has led to extensive use of attention during model design. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Yifan Zhang , Jiliang Li , Zachary Karas , Aakash Bansal , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Collin McMillan , Kevin Leach , Yu Huang

Existing studies show that code summaries help developers understand and maintain source code. Unfortunately, these summaries are often missing or outdated in software projects. Code summarization aims to generate natural language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jia Li , Yongmin Li , Ge Li , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Zhi Jin

(Source) code summarization is the task of automatically generating natural language summaries (also called comments) for given code snippets. Recently, with the successful application of large language models (LLMs) in numerous fields,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Tingting Xu , Yun Miao , Chunrong Fang , Hanwei Qian , Xia Feng , Zhenpeng Chen , Chong Wang , Jian Zhang , Weisong Sun , Zhenyu Chen , Yang Liu

Meaning Representation (AMR) is a graph-based semantic representation for sentences, composed of collections of concepts linked by semantic relations. AMR-based approaches have found success in a variety of applications, but a challenge to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Fei-Tzin Lee , Chris Kedzie , Nakul Verma , Kathleen McKeown

Automated program comprehension underpins many software engineering tasks, from code summarisation to clone detection. Recent deep learning models achieve strong results but typically rely on source code alone, overlooking contextual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Huy Nguyen , Christoph Treude , Patanamon Thongtanunam

Code summarization is a critical task in natural language processing and software engineering, which aims to generate concise descriptions of source code. Recent advancements have improved the quality of these summaries, enhancing code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Vladimir Makharev , Vladimir Ivanov

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

Attention mechanisms in neural networks have proved useful for problems in which the input and output do not have fixed dimension. Often there exist features that are locally translation invariant and would be valuable for directing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Miltiadis Allamanis , Hao Peng , Charles Sutton

In a world of proliferating data, the ability to rapidly summarize text is growing in importance. Automatic summarization of text can be thought of as a sequence to sequence problem. Another area of natural language processing that solves a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Jacob Krantz , Jugal Kalita

Automatically generating human-readable text describing the functionality of a program is the intent of source code summarization. Although neural language models achieve significant performance in this field, they are limited by their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Tong Ye , Lingfei Wu , Tengfei Ma , Xuhong Zhang , Yangkai Du , Peiyu Liu , Shouling Ji , Wenhai Wang

Massive sizes of real-world graphs, such as social networks and web graph, impose serious challenges to process and perform analytics on them. These issues can be resolved by working on a small summary of the graph instead . A summary is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Maham Anwar Beg , Muhammad Ahmad , Arif Zaman , Imdadullah Khan

Abstractive text summarization is a challenging task, and one need to design a mechanism to effectively extract salient information from the source text and then generate a summary. A parsing process of the source text contains critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Haiyang Xu , Yun Wang , Kun Han , Baochang Ma , Junwen Chen , Xiangang Li

Source code (Context) and its parsed abstract syntax tree (AST; Structure) are two complementary representations of the same computer program. Traditionally, designers of machine learning models have relied predominantly either on Structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Daniel Zügner , Tobias Kirschstein , Michele Catasta , Jure Leskovec , Stephan Günnemann

The lexical and syntactic disparities among different programming languages (e.g., Java and Python) pose significant challenges for multi-language software engineering tasks such as cross-language code clone detection and code retrieval,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junhao Chen , Jingxuan Zhang , Jian He , Yixuan Tang , Weiqin Zou