English
Related papers

Related papers: Code quality assessment using transformers

200 papers

Currently, a growing number of mature natural language processing applications make people's life more convenient. Such applications are built by source code - the language in software engineering. However, the applications for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Ahmed Elnaggar , Wei Ding , Llion Jones , Tom Gibbs , Tamas Feher , Christoph Angerer , Silvia Severini , Florian Matthes , Burkhard Rost

In this paper the accuracy and robustness of quality measures for the assessment of machine learning models are investigated. The prediction quality of a machine learning model is evaluated model-independent based on a cross-validation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-07 Thomas Most , Lars Gräning , Sebastian Wolff

AI-based code generators are an emerging solution for automatically writing programs starting from descriptions in natural language, by using deep neural networks (Neural Machine Translation, NMT). In particular, code generators have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Pietro Liguori , Cristina Improta , Roberto Natella , Bojan Cukic , Domenico Cotroneo

Quality assurance (QA) tools are receiving more and more attention and are widely used by developers. Given the wide range of solutions for QA technology, it is still a question of evaluating QA tools. Most existing research is limited in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Han Liu , Sen Chen , Ruitao Feng , Chengwei Liu , Kaixuan Li , Zhengzi Xu , Liming Nie , Yang Liu , Yixiang Chen

In software engineering, impact analysis involves predicting the software elements (e.g., modules, classes, methods) potentially impacted by a change in the source code. Impact analysis is required to optimize the testing effort. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Vincenzo Musco , Martin Monperrus , Philippe Preux

Organizational success in todays competitive employment market depends on choosing the right staff. This work evaluates software engineer profiles using an automated staff selection method based on advanced natural language processing (NLP)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ahmed Akib Jawad Karim , Shahria Hoque , Md. Golam Rabiul Alam , Md. Zia Uddin

As new advancements in the field of quantum computing lead to the development of increasingly complex programs, approaches to validate and debug these programs are becoming more important. To this end, methods employed in classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Damian Rovara , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

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

This paper explores the use of Deep Learning methods for automatic estimation of quality of human translations. Automatic estimation can provide useful feedback for translation teaching, examination and quality control. Conventional methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Yu Yuan , Serge Sharoff

Language models have proven successful across a wide range of software engineering tasks, but their significant computational costs often hinder their practical adoption. To address this challenge, researchers have begun applying various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Giordano d'Aloisio , Luca Traini , Federica Sarro , Antinisca Di Marco

In this paper we present an approach for estimating the quality of machine translation system. There are various methods for estimating the quality of output sentences, but in this paper we focus on Na\"ive Bayes classifier to build model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Rashmi Gupta , Nisheeth Joshi , Iti Mathur

Temporal expressions in text play a significant role in language understanding and correctly identifying them is fundamental to various retrieval and natural language processing systems. Previous works have slowly shifted from rule-based to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Satya Almasian , Dennis Aumiller , Michael Gertz

Pretrained transformer-encoder models like DeBERTaV3 and ModernBERT introduce architectural advancements aimed at improving efficiency and performance. Although the authors of ModernBERT report improved performance over DeBERTaV3 on several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wissam Antoun , Benoît Sagot , Djamé Seddah

Software reliability is a primary concern in the construction of software, and thus a fundamental component in the definition of software quality. Analyzing software reliability requires a specification of the intended behavior of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Facundo Molina , Pablo Ponzio , Nazareno Aguirre , Marcelo Frias

Recently there have been many advances in research on language modeling of source code. Applications range from code suggestion and completion to code summarization. However, complete program synthesis of industry-grade programming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sander de Bruin , Vadim Liventsev , Milan Petković

Automatic code generation is to generate the program code according to the given natural language description. The current mainstream approach uses neural networks to encode natural language descriptions, and output abstract syntax trees…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Maosheng Zhong , Gen Liu , Hongwei Li , Jiangling Kuang , Jinshan Zeng , Mingwen Wang

Transformer-based language models for automatic code completion have shown great promise so far, yet the evaluation of these models rarely uses real data. This study provides both quantitative and qualitative assessments of three public…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Maliheh Izadi , Jonathan Katzy , Tim van Dam , Marc Otten , Razvan Mihai Popescu , Arie van Deursen

Software code quality is a construct with three dimensions: maintainability, reliability, and functionality. Although many firms have incorporated code quality metrics in their operations, evaluating these metrics still lacks consistent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Siyuan Jin , Mianmian Zhang , Yekai Guo , Yuejiang He , Ziyuan Li , Bichao Chen , Bing Zhu , Yong Xia

This study compares the performances of different algorithms for coding speech at low bit rates. In addition to widely deployed traditional vocoders, a selection of recently developed generative-model-based coders at different bit rates are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Wissam A. Jassim , Jan Skoglund , Michael Chinen , Andrew Hines

Improvements in the performance of computing systems, driven by Moore's Law, have transformed society. As such hardware-driven gains slow down, it becomes even more important for software developers to focus on performance and efficiency…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Binghong Chen , Daniel Tarlow , Kevin Swersky , Martin Maas , Pablo Heiber , Ashish Naik , Milad Hashemi , Parthasarathy Ranganathan