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Automated program comprehension underpins many software engineering tasks, from code summarisation to clone detection. Recent deep learning models achieve strong results but typically rely on source code alone, overlooking contextual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Huy Nguyen , Christoph Treude , Patanamon Thongtanunam

Source code summarization involves creating brief descriptions of source code in natural language. These descriptions are a key component of software documentation such as JavaDocs. Automatic code summarization is a prized target of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Sakib Haque , Zachary Eberhart , Aakash Bansal , Collin McMillan

State-of-the-art summarization systems are trained and evaluated on massive datasets scraped from the web. Despite their prevalence, we know very little about the underlying characteristics (data noise, summarization complexity, etc.) of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Priyam Tejaswin , Dhruv Naik , Pengfei Liu

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

Neural abstractive summarization methods often require large quantities of labeled training data. However, labeling large amounts of summarization data is often prohibitive due to time, financial, and expertise constraints, which has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Junnan Liu , Qianren Mao , Bang Liu , Hao Peng , Hongdong Zhu , Jianxin Li

The availability of large-scale datasets, advanced architectures, and powerful computational resources have led to effective code models that automate diverse software engineering activities. The datasets usually consist of billions of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Zhou Yang , Zhipeng Zhao , Chenyu Wang , Jieke Shi , Dongsun Kim , DongGyun Han , David Lo

Effective code documentation is essential for collaboration, comprehension, and long-term software maintainability, yet developers often neglect it due to its repetitive nature. Automated documentation generation has evolved from heuristic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mojtaba Mostafavi Ghahfarokhi , Hamed Jahantigh , Alireza Asadi , Abbas Heydarnoori

Code review is an important practice in software development, yet it is time-consuming and requires substantial effort. While open-source datasets have been used to train neural models for automating code review tasks, including review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Chunhua Liu , Hong Yi Lin , Patanamon Thongtanunam

Source code summarization -- creating natural language descriptions of source code behavior -- is a rapidly-growing research topic with applications to automatic documentation generation, program comprehension, and software maintenance.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Alexander LeClair , Siyuan Jiang , Collin McMillan

Code retrieval, which retrieves code snippets based on users' natural language descriptions, is widely used by developers and plays a pivotal role in real-world software development. The advent of deep learning has shifted the retrieval…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wenchao Gu , Ensheng Shi , Yanlin Wang , Lun Du , Shi Han , Hongyu Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Michael R. Lyu

(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

The technology of automatic document summarization is maturing and may provide a solution to the information overload problem. Nowadays, document summarization plays an important role in information retrieval. With a large volume of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Mohsen Pourvali , Mohammad Saniee Abadeh

Automatic code summarization is beneficial to daily software development since it could help reduce the requirement of manual writing. Currently, artificial intelligence is undergoing a paradigm shift. The foundation models pretrained on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jian Gu , Pasquale Salza , Harald C. Gall

Translation between natural language and source code can help software development by enabling developers to comprehend, ideate, search, and write computer programs in natural language. Despite growing interest from the industry and the…

Code summarization is the task of generating readable summaries that are semantically meaningful and can accurately describe the presumed task of a software. Program comprehension has become one of the most tedious tasks for knowledge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Piyush Shrivastava

Automating code documentation through explanatory text can prove highly beneficial in code understanding. Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable strides in Natural Language Processing, especially within software engineering tasks…

Commenting code is a crucial activity in software development, as it aids in facilitating future maintenance and updates. To enhance the efficiency of writing comments and reduce developers' workload, researchers has proposed various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Weisong Sun , Yiran Zhang , Jie Zhu , Zhihui Wang , Chunrong Fang , Yonglong Zhang , Yebo Feng , Jiangping Huang , Xingya Wang , Zhi Jin , Yang Liu

(Source) code summarization aims to automatically generate succinct natural language summaries for given code snippets. Such summaries play a significant role in promoting developers to understand and maintain code. Inspired by neural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Chunrong Fang , Weisong Sun , Yuchen Chen , Xiao Chen , Zhao Wei , Quanjun Zhang , Yudu You , Bin Luo , Yang Liu , Zhenyu Chen

The great success of machine learning with massive amounts of data comes at a price of huge computation costs and storage for training and tuning. Recent studies on dataset condensation attempt to reduce the dependence on such massive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Jang-Hyun Kim , Jinuk Kim , Seong Joon Oh , Sangdoo Yun , Hwanjun Song , Joonhyun Jeong , Jung-Woo Ha , Hyun Oh Song

Testing the implementation of deep learning systems and their training routines is crucial to maintain a reliable code base. Modern software development employs processes, such as Continuous Integration, in which changes to the software are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-15 Helge Spieker , Arnaud Gotlieb