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Source Code Summarization is the task of writing short, natural language descriptions of source code. The main use for these descriptions is in software documentation e.g. the one-sentence Java method descriptions in JavaDocs. Code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Alexander LeClair , Collin McMillan

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

Automatic text summarization, the automated process of shortening a text while reserving the main ideas of the document(s), is a critical research area in natural language processing. The aim of this literature review is to survey the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yue Dong

This paper delves into the intricacies of code summarization using advanced transformer-based language models. Through empirical studies, we evaluate the efficacy of code summarization by altering function and variable names to explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Debanjan Mondal , Abhilasha Lodha , Ankita Sahoo , Beena Kumari

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

Generating a readable summary that describes the functionality of a program is known as source code summarization. In this task, learning code representation by modeling the pairwise relationship between code tokens to capture their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Saikat Chakraborty , Baishakhi Ray , Kai-Wei Chang

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 (CS) and code generation (CG) are two crucial tasks in the field of automatic software development. Various neural network-based approaches are proposed to solve these two tasks separately. However, there exists a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Bolin Wei , Ge Li , Xin Xia , Zhiyi Fu , Zhi Jin

Descriptive comments play a crucial role in the software engineering process. They decrease development time, enable better bug detection, and facilitate the reuse of previously written code. However, comments are commonly the last of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jessica Moore , Ben Gelman , David Slater

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

Text Categorization is the task of automatically sorting a set of documents into categories from a predefined set and Text Summarization is a brief and accurate representation of input text such that the output covers the most important…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Khushboo Thakkar , Urmila Shrawankar

An abstract must not change the meaning of the original text. A single most effective way to achieve that is to increase the amount of copying while still allowing for text abstraction. Human editors can usually exercise control over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Kaiqiang Song , Bingqing Wang , Zhe Feng , Liu Ren , Fei Liu

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

Recently, there has been increasing activity in using deep learning for software engineering, including tasks like code generation and summarization. In particular, the most recent coding Large Language Models seem to perform well on these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Balázs Szalontai , Gergő Szalay , Tamás Márton , Anna Sike , Balázs Pintér , Tibor Gregorics

(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

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

Code summary generation is the task of writing natural language descriptions of a section of source code. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI-based technologies have helped make automatic code summarization a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Chia-Yi Su , Aakash Bansal , Yu Huang , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Collin McMillan

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

Summarization of long sequences into a concise statement is a core problem in natural language processing, requiring non-trivial understanding of the input. Based on the promising results of graph neural networks on highly structured data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Patrick Fernandes , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt

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