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Source code summarization of a subroutine is the task of writing a short, natural language description of that subroutine. The description usually serves in documentation aimed at programmers, where even brief phrase (e.g. "compresses data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Aakash Bansal , Sakib Haque , Collin McMillan

Source code summarization is the task of creating short, natural language descriptions of source code. Code summarization is the backbone of much software documentation such as JavaDocs, in which very brief comments such as "adds the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Sakib Haque , Aakash Bansal , Lingfei Wu , Collin McMillan

Source code summarization is a process of generating summaries that describe software code, the majority of source code summarization usually generated manually, where the summaries are written by software developers. Recently, new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Ra'Fat Al-Msie'deen , Anas H. Blasi

Source code summarization is the task of writing natural language descriptions of source code behavior. Code summarization underpins software documentation for programmers. Short descriptions of code help programmers understand the program…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Aakash Bansal , Siyuan Jiang , Sakib Haque , Collin McMillan

Source code summarization is the task of writing natural language descriptions of source code. A typical use case is generating short summaries of subroutines for use in API documentation. The heart of almost all current research into code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Aakash Bansal , Chia-Yi Su , Collin McMillan

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

A source code summary of a subroutine is a brief description of that subroutine. Summaries underpin a majority of documentation consumed by programmers, such as the method summaries in JavaDocs. Source code summarization is the task of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Alexander LeClair , Aakash Bansal , Collin McMillan

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

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

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 summarization is the task of generating a high-level natural language description for a segment of programming language code. Current neural models for the task differ in their architecture and the aspects of code they consider.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Moiz Rauf , Sebastian Padó , Michael Pradel

Code translation aims to convert code from one programming language to another automatically. It is motivated by the need for multi-language software development and legacy system migration. In recent years, neural code translation has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xiang Chen , Jiacheng Xue , Xiaofei Xie , Caokai Liang , Xiaolin Ju

Neural source code summarization is the task of generating natural language descriptions of source code behavior using neural networks. A fundamental component of most neural models is an attention mechanism. The attention mechanism learns…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Aakash Bansal , Bonita Sharif , 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

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

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

During software maintenance, programmers spend a lot of time on code comprehension. Reading comments is an effective way for programmers to reduce the reading and navigating time when comprehending source code. Therefore, as a critical task…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Xing Hu , Yuhan Wei , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

Source code summarization -- creating natural language descriptions of source code behavior -- is a rapidly-growing research topic with applications to automatic documentation generation, program comprehension, and software maintenance.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Alexander LeClair , Siyuan Jiang , Collin McMillan

Automatic summarization is the process of shortening a set of textual data computationally, to create a subset (a summary) that represents the most important pieces of information in the original text. Existing summarization methods can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Meng Cao

Text summarization aims at compressing long documents into a shorter form that conveys the most important parts of the original document. Despite increased interest in the community and notable research effort, progress on benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Wojciech Kryściński , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher
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