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API documentation is crucial for developers to learn and use APIs. However, it is known that many official API documents are obsolete and incomplete. To address this challenge, we propose a new approach called AutoDoc that generates API…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Bonan Kou , Zijie Zhou , Muhao Chen , Tianyi Zhang

Software documentation is an essential but labor intensive task that often requires a dedicated team of developers to ensure coverage and accuracy. Good documentation will help shorten the development cycle and improve the overall team…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Thomas Zheng , Jeff Shaw , Sergey Kozlov

Maintaining up-to-date, comprehensive documentation for large codebases is a persistent challenge. Recent progress in automated documentation has moved from template-based rules to large language models (LLMs), yet existing tools still…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Dong Xu , Mingwei Liu , Xiwen Wang , Jianfeng Zhong , Zibin Zheng

Background: Good API documentation facilities the development process, improving productivity and quality. While the topic of API documentation quality has been of interest for the last two decades, there have been few studies to map the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Alex Cummaudo , Rajesh Vasa , John Grundy

Understanding the behaviour of a system's API can be hard. Giving users access to relevant examples of how an API behaves has been shown to make this easier for them. In addition, such examples can be used to verify expected behaviour or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Stefan Karlsson , John Hughes , Robbert Jongeling , Adnan Causevic , Daniel Sundmark

As the amount of textual data in various fields, including software development, continues to grow, there is a pressing demand for efficient and effective extraction and presentation of meaningful insights. This paper presents a unique…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-21 AmirHossein Naghshzan , Sylvie Ratte

Each programming language comes with official documentation to guide developers with APIs, methods, and classes. However, in some cases, official documentation is not an efficient way to get the needed information. As a result, developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-08 AmirHossein Naghshzan

Optimizing and maintaining up-to-date API documentation is a challenging problem for evolving OpenAPIs. In this poster, we propose a data-driven continuous optimization solution and multilingual SDK generation scheme to improve the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Shujun Wang , Yongqiang Tian , Dengcheng He

Document logical structuring aims to extract the underlying hierarchical structure of documents, which is crucial for document intelligence. Traditional approaches often fall short in handling the complexity and the variability of lengthy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zichao Li , Shaojie He , Meng Liao , Xuanang Chen , Yaojie Lu , Hongyu Lin , Yanxiong Lu , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

Given a large and evolving codebase, the ability to automatically generate holistic, architecture-aware documentation that captures not only individual functions but also cross-file, cross-module, and system-level interactions remains an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Anh Nguyen Hoang , Minh Le-Anh , Bach Le , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Web API specifications are machine-readable descriptions of APIs. These specifications, in combination with related tooling, simplify and support the consumption of APIs. However, despite the increased distribution of web APIs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Jinqiu Yang , Erik Wittern , Annie T. T. Ying , Julian Dolby , Lin Tan

Code comments can help in program comprehension and are considered as important artifacts to help developers in software maintenance. However, the comments are mostly missing or are outdated, specially in complex software projects. As a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Ramin Shahbazi , Rishab Sharma , Fatemeh H. Fard

The online technical Q&A site Stack Overflow (SO) is popular among developers to support their coding and diverse development needs. To address shortcomings in API official documentation resources, several research has thus focused on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Gias Uddin , Foutse Khomh , Chanchal K Roy

Developing document understanding models at enterprise scale requires large, diverse, and well-annotated datasets spanning a wide range of document types. However, collecting such data is prohibitively expensive due to privacy constraints,…

Huge amount of information is present in the World Wide Web and a large amount is being added to it frequently. A query-specific summary of multiple documents is very helpful to the user in this context. Currently, few systems have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-20 C Ravindranath Chowdary , P Sreenivasa Kumar

REST APIs play important roles in enriching the action space of web agents, yet most API-based agents rely on curated and uniform toolsets that do not reflect the complexity of real-world APIs. Building tool-using agents for arbitrary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Xinyi Ni , Haonan Jian , Qiuyang Wang , Vedanshi Chetan Shah , Pengyu Hong

The performance of automatic code documentation generation models depends critically on the quality of the training data used for supervision. However, most existing code documentation datasets are constructed through large scale scraping…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Recep Kaan Karaman , Meftun Akarsu

Code example is a crucial part of good documentation. It helps the developers to understand the documentation easily and use the corresponding code unit (e.g., method) properly. However, many official documentation still lacks (good) code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Junaed Younus Khan , Gias Uddin

This study tackles the challenges associated with interpreting Application Programming Interface (API) documentation, an integral aspect of software development. Official API documentation, while essential, can be lengthy and challenging to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-23 AmirHossein Naghshzan , Sylvie Ratte

AI agents and business automation tools interacting with external web services require standardized, machine-readable information about their APIs in the form of API specifications. However, the information about APIs available online is…

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