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The aim of video summarization is to shorten videos automatically while retaining the key information necessary to convey the overall story. Video summarization methods mainly rely on visual factors, such as visual consecutiveness and…

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The lack of proper documentation makes program comprehension a cumbersome process for developers. Source code summarization is one of the existing solutions to this problem. Lots of approaches have been proposed to summarize source code in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Alireza Aghamohammadi , Maliheh Izadi , Abbas Heydarnoori

Video summarization is among challenging tasks in computer vision, which aims at identifying highlight frames or shots over a lengthy video input. In this paper, we propose an novel attention-based framework for video summarization with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Yen-Ting Liu , Yu-Jhe Li , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

In a world of proliferating data, the ability to rapidly summarize text is growing in importance. Automatic summarization of text can be thought of as a sequence to sequence problem. Another area of natural language processing that solves a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Jacob Krantz , Jugal Kalita

Program comprehension concerns the ability of an individual to make an understanding of an existing software system to extend or transform it. Software systems comprise of data that are noisy and missing, which makes program understanding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Amir Saeidi , Jurriaan Hage , Ravi Khadka , Slinger Jansen

Source code summaries are important for program comprehension and maintenance. However, there are plenty of programs with missing, outdated, or mismatched summaries. Recently, deep learning techniques have been exploited to automatically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Ensheng Shi , Yanlin Wang , Lun Du , Junjie Chen , Shi Han , Hongyu Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Hongbin Sun

Code summaries are brief natural language descriptions of source code pieces. The main purpose of code summarization is to assist developers in understanding code and to reduce documentation workload. In this paper, we design a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Rui Xie , Wei Ye , Jinan Sun , Shikun Zhang

Professional summaries are written with document-level information, such as the theme of the document, in mind. This is in contrast with most seq2seq decoders which simultaneously learn to focus on salient content, while deciding what to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Rahul Aralikatte , Shashi Narayan , Joshua Maynez , Sascha Rothe , Ryan McDonald

Nowadays, Computer Science tightly entered all spheres of human activity. To improve quality and speed of development process, it is important to help programmers improve their working conditions. This paper proposes a vision on exploring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Rozaliya Amirova , Sergey Masyagin , Anastasia Reprintseva , Giancarlo Succi , Herman Tarasau

Descriptive comments play a crucial role in the software engineering process. They decrease development time, enable better bug detection, and facilitate the reuse of previously written code. However, comments are commonly the last of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jessica Moore , Ben Gelman , David Slater

Motivation: Code understandability is crucial in software development, as developers spend 58% to 70% of their time reading source code. Improving it can improve productivity and reduce maintenance costs. Problem: Experimental studies often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Delano Oliveira , Reydne Santos , Benedito de Oliveira , Martin Monperrus , Fernando Castor , Fernanda Madeiral

Developers often extract methods to improve readability, understanding, and reuse, while inlining keeps logic in one block. Prior work based on static metrics has not shown clear differences between these practices, and the human side of…

Understanding or comprehending source code is one of the core activities of software engineering. Understanding object-oriented source code is essential and required when a programmer maintains, migrates, reuses, documents or enhances…

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A concern can be characterized as a developer's intent behind a piece of code, often not explicitly captured in it. We discuss a technique of recording concerns using source code annotations (concern annotations). Using two studies and two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Matúš Sulír , Milan Nosáľ , Jaroslav Porubän

(Source) code summarization is the task of automatically generating natural language summaries (also called comments) for given code snippets. Recently, with the successful application of large language models (LLMs) in numerous fields,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Tingting Xu , Yun Miao , Chunrong Fang , Hanwei Qian , Xia Feng , Zhenpeng Chen , Chong Wang , Jian Zhang , Weisong Sun , Zhenyu Chen , Yang Liu

(Source) Code summarization aims to automatically generate summaries/comments for a given code snippet in the form of natural language. Such summaries play a key role in helping developers understand and maintain source code. Existing code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Yuchen Chen , Quanjun Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Tingxu Han , Yifei Ge , Yudu You , Bin Luo

Code summarization aims to generate natural language descriptions of source code, facilitating programmers to understand and maintain it rapidly. While previous code summarization efforts have predominantly focused on method-level, this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Yanlin Wang , Yanxian Huang , Daya Guo , Hongyu Zhang , Zibin Zheng

Automated code summarization is a long-standing goal for code comprehension. This task automatically generates documentation using a given method. Deep Learning (DL)-based approaches have been proven beneficial for various software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Antonio Vitale , Antonio Mastropaolo , Rocco Oliveto , Massimiliano Di Penta , Simone Scalabrino

Bias is an inherent threat to human decision-making, including in decisions made during software development. Extensive research has demonstrated the presence of biases at various stages of the software development life-cycle. Notably, code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yoseph Berhanu Alebachew , Chris Brown

Despite the fact that plagiarizing source code is a trivial task for most CS students, detecting such unethical behavior requires a considerable amount of effort. Thus, several plagiarism detection systems were developed to handle such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Oscar Karnalim