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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

We provide a literature review about Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) systems. We consider a citation-based approach. We start with some popular and well-known papers that we have in hand about each topic we want to cover and we have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Daniel O. Cajueiro , Arthur G. Nery , Igor Tavares , Maísa K. De Melo , Silvia A. dos Reis , Li Weigang , Victor R. R. Celestino

We propose a method to perform automatic document summarisation without using reference summaries. Instead, our method interactively learns from users' preferences. The merit of preference-based interactive summarisation is that preferences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Yang Gao , Christian M. Meyer , Iryna Gurevych

Abstractive summarization has been studied using neural sequence transduction methods with datasets of large, paired document-summary examples. However, such datasets are rare and the models trained from them do not generalize to other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Eric Chu , Peter J. Liu

Dialogue summarization aims to distill the core meaning of a conversation into a concise text. This is crucial for reducing the complexity and noise inherent in dialogue-heavy applications. While recent approaches typically train language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mohamed Imed Eddine Ghebriout , Gaël Guibon , Ivan Lerner , Emmanuel Vincent

Utilizing code snippets on Stack Overflow (SO) is a common practice among developers for problem-solving. Although SO code snippets serve as valuable resources, it is important to acknowledge their imperfections, reusing problematic code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yubo Mai , Zhipeng Gao , Haoye Wang , Tingting Bi , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Jianling Sun

We propose a method for unsupervised opinion summarization that encodes sentences from customer reviews into a hierarchical discrete latent space, then identifies common opinions based on the frequency of their encodings. We are able to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Tom Hosking , Hao Tang , Mirella Lapata

Current video summarization methods rely heavily on supervised computer vision techniques, which demands time-consuming and subjective manual annotations. To overcome these limitations, we investigated self-supervised video summarization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Tomoya Sugihara , Shuntaro Masuda , Ling Xiao , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Existing studies show that code summaries help developers understand and maintain source code. Unfortunately, these summaries are often missing or outdated in software projects. Code summarization aims to generate natural language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jia Li , Yongmin Li , Ge Li , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Zhi Jin

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

With more and more advanced data analysis techniques emerging, people will expect these techniques to be applied in more complex tasks and solve problems in our daily lives. Text Summarization is one of famous applications in Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chen Jia-Chen , Guillem Senabre , Allane Caron

Analysts require attribution, as nothing can be reported without knowing the source of the information. In this paper, we will focus on automatic methods for attribution, linking each sentence in the summary to a portion of the source text,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Violet B , John M. Conroy , Sean Lynch , Danielle M , Neil P. Molino , Aaron Wiechmann , Julia S. Yang

Commenting code is a crucial activity in software development, as it aids in facilitating future maintenance and updates. To enhance the efficiency of writing comments and reduce developers' workload, researchers has proposed various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Weisong Sun , Yiran Zhang , Jie Zhu , Zhihui Wang , Chunrong Fang , Yonglong Zhang , Yebo Feng , Jiangping Huang , Xingya Wang , Zhi Jin , Yang Liu

Code summarization is the task of generating readable summaries that are semantically meaningful and can accurately describe the presumed task of a software. Program comprehension has become one of the most tedious tasks for knowledge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Piyush Shrivastava

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

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

Exploring the tremendous amount of data efficiently to make a decision, similar to answering a complicated question, is challenging with many real-world application scenarios. In this context, automatic summarization has substantial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Samira Ghodratnama , Mehrdad Zakershahrak , Fariborz Sobhanmanesh

As academic literature proliferates, traditional review methods are increasingly challenged by the sheer volume and diversity of available research. This article presents a study that aims to address these challenges by enhancing the…

Summarisation of research results in plain language is crucial for promoting public understanding of research findings. The use of Natural Language Processing to generate lay summaries has the potential to relieve researchers' workload and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Oliver Vinzelberg , Mark David Jenkins , Gordon Morison , David McMinn , Zoe Tieges

Unsupervised summarization is a powerful technique that enables training summarizing models without requiring labeled datasets. This survey covers different recent techniques and models used for unsupervised summarization. We cover…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Mohammad Khosravani , Amine Trabelsi