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Audio captioning quality metrics which are typically borrowed from the machine translation and image captioning areas measure the degree of overlap between predicted tokens and gold reference tokens. In this work, we consider a metric…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Rehana Mahfuz , Yinyi Guo , Erik Visser

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

(Source) code summarization aims to automatically generate succinct natural language summaries for given code snippets. Such summaries play a significant role in promoting developers to understand and maintain code. Inspired by neural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Chunrong Fang , Weisong Sun , Yuchen Chen , Xiao Chen , Zhao Wei , Quanjun Zhang , Yudu You , Bin Luo , Yang Liu , Zhenyu Chen

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

Comments are an integral part of software development; they are natural language descriptions associated with source code elements. Understanding explicit associations can be useful in improving code comprehensibility and maintaining the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Sheena Panthaplackel , Milos Gligoric , Raymond J. Mooney , Junyi Jessy Li

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

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

Sentence similarity is considered the basis of many natural language tasks such as information retrieval, question answering and text summarization. The semantic meaning between compared text fragments is based on the words semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Issa Atoum , Ahmed Otoom , Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer

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

Duplicated code has a negative impact on the quality of software systems and should be detected at least. In this paper, we discuss an approach that improves source code retrieval using the structural information about the programs. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Yoshihisa Udagawa

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 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

Evaluating multi-document summarization (MDS) quality is difficult. This is especially true in the case of MDS for biomedical literature reviews, where models must synthesize contradicting evidence reported across different documents. Prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Lucy Lu Wang , Yulia Otmakhova , Jay DeYoung , Thinh Hung Truong , Bailey E. Kuehl , Erin Bransom , Byron C. Wallace

Software documentation largely consists of short, natural language summaries of the subroutines in the software. These summaries help programmers quickly understand what a subroutine does without having to read the source code him or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Sakib Haque , Alexander LeClair , Lingfei Wu , Collin McMillan

Code summarization is a critical task in natural language processing and software engineering, which aims to generate concise descriptions of source code. Recent advancements have improved the quality of these summaries, enhancing code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Vladimir Makharev , Vladimir Ivanov

Canonical automatic summary evaluation metrics, such as ROUGE, focus on lexical similarity which cannot well capture semantics nor linguistic quality and require a reference summary which is costly to obtain. Recently, there have been a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Forrest Sheng Bao , Hebi Li , Ge Luo , Minghui Qiu , Yinfei Yang , Youbiao He , Cen Chen

Code summarization facilitates program comprehension and software maintenance by converting code snippets into natural-language descriptions. Over the years, numerous methods have been developed for this task, but a key challenge remains:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yang Wu , Yao Wan , Zhaoyang Chu , Wenting Zhao , Ye Liu , Hongyu Zhang , Xuanhua Shi , Philip S. Yu

Code summarization aims to generate concise natural language descriptions for source code. Deep learning has been used more and more recently in software engineering, particularly for tasks like code creation and summarization.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Md. Ahnaf Akib , Md. Muktadir Mazumder , Salman Ahsan

We study unsupervised multi-document summarization evaluation metrics, which require neither human-written reference summaries nor human annotations (e.g. preferences, ratings, etc.). We propose SUPERT, which rates the quality of a summary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yang Gao , Wei Zhao , Steffen Eger

Reliable evaluation of large language model (LLM)-generated summaries remains an open challenge, particularly across heterogeneous domains and document lengths. We conduct a comprehensive meta-evaluation of 14 automatic summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Huyen Nguyen , Haoxuan Zhang , Yang Zhang , Junhua Ding , Haihua Chen