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Code documentation is a critical aspect of software development, serving as a bridge between human understanding and machine-readable code. Beyond assisting developers in understanding and maintaining code, documentation also plays a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Soneya Binta Hossain , Raygan Taylor , Matthew Dwyer

Generative machine learning models have recently been applied to source code, for use cases including translating code between programming languages, creating documentation from code, and auto-completing methods. Yet, state-of-the-art…

Context: Code reviews are essential for maintaining software quality, yet many human review comments suffer from issues such as redundancy, vagueness, or lack of constructiveness. These types of comments may slow down feedback and obscure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Semih Çağlar , Şükrü Eren Gökırmak , Eray Tüzün

Code reviews are central for software quality assurance. Ideally, reviewers should explain their feedback to enable authors of code changes to understand the feedback and act accordingly. Different developers might need different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ratnadira Widyasari , Ting Zhang , Abir Bouraffa , Walid Maalej , David Lo

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

The increasing demand for programming language education and growing class sizes require immediate and personalized feedback. However, traditional code review methods have limitations in providing this level of feedback. As the capabilities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Lee Dong-Kyu

Assessing the quality of outputs generated by generative models, such as large language models and vision language models, presents notable challenges. Traditional methods for evaluation typically rely on either human assessments, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yaswanth Narsupalli , Abhranil Chandra , Sreevatsa Muppirala , Manish Gupta , Pawan Goyal

We propose a framework to automatically generate descriptive comments for source code blocks. While this problem has been studied by many researchers previously, their methods are mostly based on fixed template and achieves poor results.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Yuding Liang , Kenny Q. Zhu

A major problem with user-written bug reports, indicated by developers and documented by researchers, is the (lack of high) quality of the reported steps to reproduce the bugs. Low-quality steps to reproduce lead to excessive manual effort…

The programming skill is one crucial ability for Large Language Models (LLMs), necessitating a deep understanding of programming languages (PLs) and their correlation with natural languages (NLs). We examine the impact of pre-training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Demin Song , Honglin Guo , Yunhua Zhou , Shuhao Xing , Yudong Wang , Zifan Song , Wenwei Zhang , Qipeng Guo , Hang Yan , Xipeng Qiu , Dahua Lin

The escalating volume of academic research, coupled with a shortage of qualified reviewers, necessitates innovative approaches to peer review. In this work, we propose: 1. ReviewEval, a comprehensive evaluation framework for AI-generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Madhav Krishan Garg , Tejash Prasad , Tanmay Singhal , Chhavi Kirtani , Murari Mandal , Dhruv Kumar

This paper presents a novel approach to enhance the performance of binary code comment quality classification models through the application of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). By leveraging the OpenAI API, a dataset comprising 1239…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Seetharam Killivalavan , Durairaj Thenmozhi

TODO comments are very widely used by software developers to describe their pending tasks during software development. However, after performing the task developers sometimes neglect or simply forget to remove the TODO comment, resulting in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zhipeng Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy , Thomas Zimmermann

The growing need for automated and personalized feedback in programming education has led to recent interest in leveraging generative AI for feedback generation. However, current approaches tend to rely on prompt engineering techniques in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Victor-Alexandru Pădurean , Tung Phung , Nachiket Kotalwar , Michael Liut , Juho Leinonen , Paul Denny , Adish Singla

Reviews contain rich information about product characteristics and user interests and thus are commonly used to boost recommender system performance. Specifically, previous work show that jointly learning to perform review generation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhouhang Xie , Julian McAuley , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder

Automatic news comment generation is a new testbed for techniques of natural language generation. In this paper, we propose a "read-attend-comment" procedure for news comment generation and formalize the procedure with a reading network and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Ze Yang , Can Xu , Wei Wu , Zhoujun Li

Automated source code summarization is a popular software engineering research topic wherein machine translation models are employed to "translate" code snippets into relevant natural language descriptions. Most evaluations of such models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Junayed Mahmud , Fahim Faisal , Raihan Islam Arnob , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Kevin Moran

Pretrained language models have been shown to be effective in many software-related generation tasks; however, they are not well-suited for editing tasks as they are not designed to reason about edits. To address this, we propose a novel…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Jiyang Zhang , Sheena Panthaplackel , Pengyu Nie , Junyi Jessy Li , Milos Gligoric

We introduce the task of automatically revising scientific papers based on peer feedback and release ARIES, a dataset of review comments and their corresponding paper edits. The data is drawn from real reviewer-author interactions from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Mike D'Arcy , Alexis Ross , Erin Bransom , Bailey Kuehl , Jonathan Bragg , Tom Hope , Doug Downey

Evaluation of text generation to date has primarily focused on content created sequentially, rather than improvements on a piece of text. Writing, however, is naturally an iterative and incremental process that requires expertise in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Jane Dwivedi-Yu , Timo Schick , Zhengbao Jiang , Maria Lomeli , Patrick Lewis , Gautier Izacard , Edouard Grave , Sebastian Riedel , Fabio Petroni