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Generative models for source code are an interesting structured prediction problem, requiring to reason about both hard syntactic and semantic constraints as well as about natural, likely programs. We present a novel model for this problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Marc Brockschmidt , Miltiadis Allamanis , Alexander L. Gaunt , Oleksandr Polozov

Source code summarization aims to generate natural language summaries from structured code snippets for better understanding code functionalities. However, automatic code summarization is challenging due to the complexity of the source code…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Shangqing Liu , Yu Chen , Xiaofei Xie , Jingkai Siow , Yang Liu

In large-scale software development, understanding the functionality and intent behind complex codebases is critical for effective development and maintenance. While code summarization has been widely studied, existing methods primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Nilesh Dhulshette , Sapan Shah , Vinay Kulkarni

Background: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a key component for delivering high-quality software and sharing knowledge among developers. Effective reviews require an in-depth understanding of the code and demand from the reviewers to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Deepika Badampudi , Ricardo Britto , Nauman bin Ali

Repository summarization is a crucial research question in development and maintenance for software engineering. Existing repository summarization techniques primarily focus on summarizing code according to the directory tree, which is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yifeng Zhu , Xianlin Zhao , Xutian Li , Yanzhen Zou , Haizhuo Yuan , Yue Wang , Bing Xie

Capturing the compositional process which maps the meaning of words to that of documents is a central challenge for researchers in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. We introduce a model that is able to represent the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Misha Denil , Alban Demiraj , Nal Kalchbrenner , Phil Blunsom , Nando de Freitas

Code review is an essential part to software development lifecycle since it aims at guaranteeing the quality of codes. Modern code review activities necessitate developers viewing, understanding and even running the programs to assess…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Zhiyu Li , Shuai Lu , Daya Guo , Nan Duan , Shailesh Jannu , Grant Jenks , Deep Majumder , Jared Green , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Shengyu Fu , Neel Sundaresan

Semantic parsing aims at mapping natural language utterances into structured meaning representations. In this work, we propose a structure-aware neural architecture which decomposes the semantic parsing process into two stages. Given an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Li Dong , Mirella Lapata

Program visualizations help to form useful mental models of how programs work, and to reason and debug code. But these visualizations exist at a fixed level of abstraction, e.g., line-by-line. In contrast, programmers switch between many…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Devamardeep Hayatpur , Haijun Xia , Daniel Wigdor

Automatically generating function summaries for binaries is an extremely valuable but challenging task, since it involves translating the execution behavior and semantics of the low-level language (assembly code) into human-readable natural…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Tong Ye , Lingfei Wu , Tengfei Ma , Xuhong Zhang , Yangkai Du , Peiyu Liu , Shouling Ji , Wenhai Wang

Optimizations in a traditional compiler are applied sequentially, with each optimization destructively modifying the program to produce a transformed program that is then passed to the next optimization. We present a new approach for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Ross Tate , Michael Stepp , Zachary Tatlock , Sorin Lerner

Cross-lingual summarization aims to bridge language barriers by summarizing documents in different languages. However, ensuring semantic coherence across languages is an overlooked challenge and can be critical in several contexts. To fill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Diogo Pernes , Gonçalo M. Correia , Afonso Mendes

Code summarization and generation empower conversion between programming language (PL) and natural language (NL), while code translation avails the migration of legacy code from one PL to another. This paper introduces PLBART, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Saikat Chakraborty , Baishakhi Ray , Kai-Wei Chang

Understanding or comprehending source code is one of the core activities of software engineering. Understanding object-oriented source code is essential and required when a programmer maintains, migrates, reuses, documents or enhances…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-01-29 Ra'Fat AL-msie'deen

A structural graph summary is a small graph representation that preserves structural information necessary for a given task. The summary is used instead of the original graph to complete the task faster. We introduce multi-view structural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Jonatan Frank , Andor Diera , David Richerby , Ansgar Scherp

Qualitative data analysis provides insight into the underlying perceptions and experiences within unstructured data. However, the time-consuming nature of the coding process, especially for larger datasets, calls for innovative approaches,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Elisabeth Kirsten , Annalina Buckmann , Abraham Mhaidli , Steffen Becker

Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce code with subtle implementation-level bugs despite strong benchmark performance. These errors are hard for LLMs to spot and can have large behavioural effects; yet when asked to summarise code,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lukas Twist

A range of applications for automatic machine learning need the generation process to be controllable. In this work, we propose a way to control the output via a sequence of simple actions, that are called semantic code classes. Finally, we…

A brief, fluent, and relevant summary can be helpful during program comprehension; however, such a summary does require significant human effort to produce. Often, good summaries are unavailable in software projects, which makes maintenance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yuvraj Virk , Premkumar Devanbu , Toufique Ahmed

Semantic parsing is the task of converting natural language utterances into machine interpretable meaning representations which can be executed against a real-world environment such as a database. Scaling semantic parsing to arbitrary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Jianpeng Cheng , Siva Reddy , Mirella Lapata