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Commit messages are explanations of changes made to a codebase that are stored in version control systems. They help developers understand the codebase as it evolves. However, writing commit messages can be tedious and inconsistent among…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Cristina V. Lopes , Vanessa I. Klotzman , Iris Ma , Iftekar Ahmed

Commit messages are a valuable resource in comprehension of software evolution, since they provide a record of changes such as feature additions and bug repairs. Unfortunately, programmers often neglect to write good commit messages.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Siyuan Jiang , Ameer Armaly , Collin McMillan

Evaluation metrics play a vital role in the growth of an area as it defines the standard of distinguishing between good and bad models. In the area of code synthesis, the commonly used evaluation metric is BLEU or perfect accuracy, but they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Shuo Ren , Daya Guo , Shuai Lu , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Duyu Tang , Neel Sundaresan , Ming Zhou , Ambrosio Blanco , Shuai Ma

Unlike classical lexical overlap metrics such as BLEU, most current evaluation metrics (such as BERTScore or MoverScore) are based on black-box language models such as BERT or XLM-R. They often achieve strong correlations with human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Christoph Leiter , Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn , Marina Fomicheva , Wei Zhao , Yang Gao , Steffen Eger

Most current state-of-the art systems for generating English text from Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) have been evaluated only using automated metrics, such as BLEU, which are known to be problematic for natural language generation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Emma Manning , Shira Wein , Nathan Schneider

Commit messages (CMs) are an essential part of version control. By providing important context in regard to what has changed and why, they strongly support software maintenance and evolution. But writing good CMs is difficult and often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 David Faragó , Michael Färber , Christian Petrov

Changes in source code are an inevitable part of software development. They are the results of indispensable activities such as fixing bugs or improving functionality. Descriptions for code changes (commit messages) help people better…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Thanh Trong Vu , Thanh-Dat Do , Hieu Dinh Vo

Commit messages provide descriptions of the modifications made in a commit using natural language, making them crucial for software maintenance and evolution. Recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their use in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Aaron Imani , Iftekhar Ahmed , Mohammad Moshirpour

While most neural machine translation (NMT) systems are still trained using maximum likelihood estimation, recent work has demonstrated that optimizing systems to directly improve evaluation metrics such as BLEU can substantially improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 John Wieting , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Kevin Gimpel , Graham Neubig

Neural metrics for machine translation evaluation, such as COMET, exhibit significant improvements in their correlation with human judgments, as compared to traditional metrics based on lexical overlap, such as BLEU. Yet, neural metrics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Ricardo Rei , Nuno M. Guerreiro , Marcos Treviso , Luisa Coheur , Alon Lavie , André F. T. Martins

Commit messages aid developers in their understanding of a continuously evolving codebase. However, developers not always document code changes properly. Automatically generating commit messages would relieve this burden on developers.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-27 S. R. P. van Hal , M. Post , K. Wendel

Automatic metrics are fundamental for the development and evaluation of machine translation systems. Judging whether, and to what extent, automatic metrics concur with the gold standard of human evaluation is not a straightforward problem.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Nitika Mathur , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), a large number of machine learning models have been developed to assist programming tasks including the generation of program code from natural language input. However, how to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Debalina Ghosh Paul , Hong Zhu , Ian Bayley

Automated metrics such as BLEU are widely used in the machine translation literature. They have also been used recently in the dialogue community for evaluating dialogue response generation. However, previous work in dialogue response…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Shikhar Sharma , Layla El Asri , Hannes Schulz , Jeremie Zumer

Commit messages play a key role in documenting the intent behind code changes. However, they are often low-quality, vague, or incomplete, limiting their usefulness. Commit Message Generation (CMG) aims to automatically generate descriptive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Bo Xiong , Linghao Zhang , Zongen Ren , Chong Wang , Peng Liang

Commit messages concisely describe code changes in natural language and are important for software maintenance. Several approaches have been proposed to automatically generate commit messages, but they still suffer from critical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yifan Wu , Yunpeng Wang , Ying Li , Wei Tao , Siyu Yu , Haowen Yang , Wei Jiang , Jianguo Li

The quality of automatic metrics for machine translation has been increasingly called into question, especially for high-quality systems. This paper demonstrates that, while choice of metric is important, the nature of the references is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Markus Freitag , David Grangier , Isaac Caswell

Automatic evaluation metrics are crucial for advancing sign language translation (SLT). Current SLT evaluation metrics, such as BLEU and ROUGE, are only text-based, and it remains unclear to what extent text-based metrics can reliably…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Shakib Yazdani , Yasser Hamidullah , Cristina España-Bonet , Eleftherios Avramidis , Josef van Genabith

Automatic metrics are commonly used as the exclusive tool for declaring the superiority of one machine translation system's quality over another. The community choice of automatic metric guides research directions and industrial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Tom Kocmi , Christian Federmann , Roman Grundkiewicz , Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt , Hitokazu Matsushita , Arul Menezes

Text generation is an important Natural Language Processing task with various applications. Although several metrics have already been introduced to evaluate the text generation methods, each of them has its own shortcomings. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Ehsan Montahaei , Danial Alihosseini , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah