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Large language models are increasingly trained on corpora containing both natural language and non-linguistic data like source code. Aside from aiding programming-related tasks, anecdotal evidence suggests that including code in pretraining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jackson Petty , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Tal Linzen

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant popularity due to their ability to generate human-like text and their potential applications in various fields, such as Software Engineering. LLMs for Code are commonly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ali Al-Kaswan , Maliheh Izadi

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

Natural language processing for programming aims to use NLP techniques to assist programming. It is increasingly prevalent for its effectiveness in improving productivity. Distinct from natural language, a programming language is highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Qingfu Zhu , Xianzhen Luo , Fang Liu , Cuiyun Gao , Wanxiang Che

Software maintenance constitutes a substantial portion of the total lifetime costs of software, with a significant portion attributed to code comprehension. Software comprehension is eased by documentation such as comments that summarize…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Skyler Grandel , Scott Thomas Andersen , Yu Huang , Kevin Leach

Bug reports are a popular target for natural language processing (NLP). However, bug reports often contain artifacts such as code snippets, log outputs and stack traces. These artifacts not only inflate the bug reports with noise, but often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Thomas Hirsch , Birgit Hofer

Code comments play a prominent role in program comprehension activities. However, source code is not always documented and code and comments not always co-evolve. To deal with these issues, researchers have proposed techniques to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Antonio Mastropaolo , Emad Aghajani , Luca Pascarella , Gabriele Bavota

Machine learning enables the development of new, supplemental, and empowering tools that can either expand existing technologies or invent new ones. In education, space exists for a tool that supports generic student course review formats…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ben Hoar , Roshini Ramachandran , Marc Levis , Erin Sparck , Ke Wu , Chong Liu

Code comments are significantly helpful in comprehending software programs and also aid developers to save a great deal of time in software maintenance. Code comment generation aims to automatically predict comments in natural language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Ramin Shahbazi , Fatemeh Fard

Opinions are very important in the life of human beings. These Opinions helped the humans to carry out the decisions. As the impact of the Web is increasing day by day, Web documents can be seen as a new source of opinion for human beings.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Richa Sharma , Shweta Nigam , Rekha Jain

The diverse community members who contribute to the discussions on issue tracking systems of open-source software projects often exhibit complex affective states such as sentiments and tones. These affective states can significantly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Arghavan Sanei , Jinghui Cheng , Bram Adams

The analysis of consumer sentiment, as expressed through reviews, can provide a wealth of insight regarding the quality of a product. While the study of sentiment analysis has been widely explored in many popular languages, relatively less…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Mohsinul Kabir , Obayed Bin Mahfuz , Syed Rifat Raiyan , Hasan Mahmud , Md Kamrul Hasan

Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming integral to modern software development workflows, assisting developers with code generation, API explanation, and iterative problem-solving through natural language conversations. Despite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Suzhen Zhong , Ying Zou , Bram Adams

The rapid adoption of foundation models (e.g., large language models) has given rise to promptware, i.e., software built using natural language prompts. Effective management of prompts, such as organization and quality assurance, is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hao Li , Hicham Masri , Filipe R. Cogo , Abdul Ali Bangash , Bram Adams , Ahmed E. Hassan

This paper is a reproduction of work by Ray et al. which claimed to have uncovered a statistically significant association between eleven programming languages and software defects in projects hosted on GitHub. First we conduct an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Emery D. Berger , Celeste Hollenbeck , Petr Maj , Olga Vitek , Jan Vitek

Python is one of the fastest-growing programming languages and currently ranks as the top language in many lists, even recently overtaking JavaScript as the top language on GitHub. Given its importance in data science and machine learning,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Idriss Abdelmadjid , Robert Dyer

The task of automated code review has recently gained a lot of attention from the machine learning community. However, current review comment evaluation metrics rely on comparisons with a human-written reference for a given code change…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Atharva Naik , Marcus Alenius , Daniel Fried , Carolyn Rose

On social media platforms like Twitter, users regularly share their opinions and comments with software vendors and service providers. Popular software products might get thousands of user comments per day. Research has shown that such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Christoph Stanik , Tim Pietz , Walid Maalej

Open-domain code generation aims to generate code in a general-purpose programming language (such as Python) from natural language (NL) intents. Motivated by the intuition that developers usually retrieve resources on the web when writing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Frank F. Xu , Zhengbao Jiang , Pengcheng Yin , Bogdan Vasilescu , Graham Neubig

In this paper, we present an analysis of more than 500K comments from open-source repositories of software systems. Our aim is to empirically determine how developers interact with each other under certain psychological conditions generated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Giuseppe Destefanis , Marco Ortu , Steve Counsell , Stephen Swift , Roberto Tonelli , Michele Marchesi