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Automatic summarization of natural language is a current topic in computer science research and industry, studied for decades because of its usefulness across multiple domains. For example, summarization is necessary to create reviews such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Marc Everett Johnson

Abstractive text summarization aims to shorten long text documents into a human readable form that contains the most important facts from the original document. However, the level of actual abstraction as measured by novel phrases that do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Wojciech Kryściński , Romain Paulus , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

Code super-optimization is the task of transforming any given program to a more efficient version while preserving its input-output behaviour. In some sense, it is similar to the paraphrase problem from natural language processing where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Rudy Bunel , Alban Desmaison , M. Pawan Kumar , Philip H. S. Torr , Pushmeet Kohli

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

Code summarization generates brief natural language descriptions of source code pieces, which can assist developers in understanding code and reduce documentation workload. Recent neural models on code summarization are trained and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Rui Xie , Tianxiang Hu , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang

Document Summarization is the procedure of generating a meaningful and concise summary of a given document with the inclusion of relevant and topic-important points. There are two approaches: one is picking up the most relevant statements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Siddhant Porwal , Laxmi Bewoor , Vivek Deshpande

Programming languages are emerging as a challenging and interesting domain for machine learning. A core task, which has received significant attention in recent years, is building generative models of source code. However, to our knowledge,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Rui Zhao , David Bieber , Kevin Swersky , Daniel Tarlow

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

Summarizing texts is not a straightforward task. Before even considering text summarization, one should determine what kind of summary is expected. How much should the information be compressed? Is it relevant to reformulate or should the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Paul Tardy , David Janiszek , Yannick Estève , Vincent Nguyen

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

Opinion summarization is the automatic creation of text reflecting subjective information expressed in multiple documents, such as user reviews of a product. The task is practically important and has attracted a lot of attention. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Arthur Bražinskas , Mirella Lapata , Ivan Titov

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

Several code summarization techniques have been proposed in the literature to automatically document a code snippet or a function. Ideally, software developers should be involved in assessing the quality of the generated summaries. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Antonio Mastropaolo , Matteo Ciniselli , Massimiliano Di Penta , Gabriele Bavota

Generating meaningful assert statements is one of the key challenges in automated test case generation, which requires understanding the intended functionality of the tested code. Recently, deep learning-based models have shown promise in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yuwei Zhang , Zhi Jin , Zejun Wang , Ying Xing , Ge Li

Automatic summarization is the process of reducing a text document in order to generate a summary that retains the most important points of the original document. In this work, we study two problems - i) summarizing a text document as set…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jayaprakash Sundararaj

Automatic code summarization is beneficial to daily software development since it could help reduce the requirement of manual writing. Currently, artificial intelligence is undergoing a paradigm shift. The foundation models pretrained on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jian Gu , Pasquale Salza , Harald C. Gall

Currently used metrics for assessing summarization algorithms do not account for whether summaries are factually consistent with source documents. We propose a weakly-supervised, model-based approach for verifying factual consistency and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Wojciech Kryściński , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

To support software developers in understanding and maintaining programs, various automatic (source) code summarization techniques have been proposed to generate a concise natural language summary (i.e., comment) for a given code snippet.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Weisong Sun , Yun Miao , Yuekang Li , Hongyu Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Yi Liu , Gelei Deng , Yang Liu , Zhenyu Chen

We tackle the task of automatically generating a function name from source code. Existing generators face difficulties in generating low-frequency or out-of-vocabulary subwords. In this paper, we propose two strategies for copying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Shogo Fujita , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Hiroya Takamura , Manabu Okumura

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