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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

As developers increasingly rely on LLM-generated code summaries for documentation, testing, and review, it is important to study whether these summaries accurately reflect what the program actually does. LLMs often produce confident…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Lara Khatib , Micheal Pu , Bogdan Vasilescu , Meiyappan Nagappan

This paper presents novel prompting techniques to improve the performance of automatic summarization systems for scientific articles. Scientific article summarization is highly challenging due to the length and complexity of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Aldan Creo , Manuel Lama , Juan C. Vidal

Personalization, the ability to tailor a system to individual users, is an essential factor in user experience with natural language processing (NLP) systems. With the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), a key question is how to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Chris Richardson , Yao Zhang , Kellen Gillespie , Sudipta Kar , Arshdeep Singh , Zeynab Raeesy , Omar Zia Khan , Abhinav Sethy

Given a document in a source language, cross-lingual summarization (CLS) aims at generating a concise summary in a different target language. Unlike monolingual summarization (MS), naturally occurring source-language documents paired with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jiaan Wang , Fandong Meng , Yunlong Liang , Tingyi Zhang , Jiarong Xu , Zhixu Li , Jie Zhou

Despite the recent success of multi-task learning and pre-finetuning for natural language understanding, few works have studied the effects of task families on abstractive text summarization. Task families are a form of task grouping during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Frederic Kirstein , Jan Philip Wahle , Terry Ruas , Bela Gipp

This paper explores the effect of using multitask learning for abstractive summarization in the context of small training corpora. In particular, we incorporate four different tasks (extractive summarization, language modeling, concept…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ahmed Magooda , Mohamed Elaraby , Diane Litman

Abstractive summarization at controllable lengths is a challenging task in natural language processing. It is even more challenging for domains where limited training data is available or scenarios in which the length of the summary is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ritesh Sarkhel , Moniba Keymanesh , Arnab Nandi , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

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

Multi-task learning (MTL) is an efficient solution to solve multiple tasks simultaneously in order to get better speed and performance than handling each single-task in turn. The most current methods can be categorized as either: (i) hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Yifan Liu , Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen , Hao Chen , Wei Yin

Evaluating text summarization has been a challenging task in natural language processing (NLP). Automatic metrics which heavily rely on reference summaries are not suitable in many situations, while human evaluation is time-consuming and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Huyen Nguyen , Haihua Chen , Lavanya Pobbathi , Junhua Ding

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve the generalization performance of multiple tasks by exploiting the shared factors among them. Various metrics (e.g., F-score, Area Under the ROC Curve) are used to evaluate the performances of MTL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Ge-Yang Ke , Yan Pan , Jian Yin , Chang-Qin Huang

E-commerce product catalogs contain billions of items. Most products have lengthy titles, as sellers pack them with product attributes to improve retrieval, and highlight key product aspects. This results in a gap between such unnatural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Besnik Fetahu , Zhiyu Chen , Oleg Rokhlenko , Shervin Malmasi

Code review is a crucial process before deploying code to production, as it validates the code, provides suggestions for improvements, and identifies errors such as missed edge cases. In projects with regular production releases, the effort…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Jahnavi Kumar , Sridhar Chimalakonda

Existing video summarization approaches mainly concentrate on sequential or structural characteristic of video data. However, they do not pay enough attention to the video summarization task itself. In this paper, we propose a meta learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Xuelong Li , Hongli Li , Yongsheng Dong

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a powerful learning paradigm to improve generalization performance via knowledge sharing. However, existing studies find that MTL could sometimes hurt generalization, especially when two tasks are less…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Ziniu Hu , Zhe Zhao , Xinyang Yi , Tiansheng Yao , Lichan Hong , Yizhou Sun , Ed H. Chi

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

When comprehending code, a helping hand may come from the natural language comments documenting it that, unfortunately, are not always there. To support developers in such a scenario, several techniques have been presented to automatically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Antonio Mastropaolo , Matteo Ciniselli , Luca Pascarella , Rosalia Tufano , Emad Aghajani , Gabriele Bavota

Automatic Text Summarization (ATS), utilizing Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms, aims to create concise and accurate summaries, thereby significantly reducing the human effort required in processing large volumes of text. ATS has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yang Zhang , Hanlei Jin , Dan Meng , Jun Wang , Jinghua Tan

Parallel cross-lingual summarization data is scarce, requiring models to better use the limited available cross-lingual resources. Existing methods to do so often adopt sequence-to-sequence networks with multi-task frameworks. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yu Bai , Yang Gao , Heyan Huang