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Good software documentation encourages good software engineering, but the meaning of "good" documentation is vaguely defined in the software engineering literature. To clarify this ambiguity, we draw on work from the data and information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Christoph Treude , Justin Middleton , Thushari Atapattu

Various software features such as classes, methods, requirements, and tests often have similar functionality. This can lead to emergence of duplicates in their descriptive documentation. Uncontrolled duplicates created via copy/paste hinder…

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

The exponential growth of scientific literature in PDF format necessitates advanced tools for efficient and accurate document understanding, summarization, and content optimization. Traditional methods fall short in handling complex layouts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kun Qian , Wenjie Li , Tianyu Sun , Wenhong Wang , Wenhan Luo

We propose a toolkit to generate structured synthetic documents emulating the actual document production process. Synthetic documents can be used to train systems to perform document analysis tasks. In our case we address the record…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Samuele Capobianco , Simone Marinai

Software documentation guides the proper use of tools or services. With the rapid growth of machine learning libraries, individuals from various fields are incorporating machine learning into their workflows through programming. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Sharuka Promodya Thirimanne , Elim Yoseph Lemango , Giulio Antoniol , Maleknaz Nayebi

Automatic text summarisation has drawn considerable interest in the area of software engineering. It is challenging to summarise the activities related to a software project, (1) because of the volume and heterogeneity of involved software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Mahfouth Alghamdi , Christoph Treude , Markus Wagner

Automated text generation requires a underlying knowledge base from which to generate, which is often difficult to produce. Software documentation is one domain in which parts of this knowledge base may be derived automatically. In this…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Cecile Paris , Keith Vander Linden

The generative capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly expanding from static code to dynamic, interactive visual artifacts. This progress is bottlenecked by a critical evaluation gap: established benchmarks focus on…

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

We introduce Docling, an easy-to-use, self-contained, MIT-licensed, open-source toolkit for document conversion, that can parse several types of popular document formats into a unified, richly structured representation. It is powered by…

Document parsing is essential for analyzing complex document structures and extracting fine-grained information, supporting numerous downstream applications. However, existing methods often require integrating multiple independent models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Mingxu Chai , Ziyu Shen , Chong Zhang , Yue Zhang , Xiao Wang , Shihan Dou , Jihua Kang , Jiazheng Zhang , Qi Zhang

Contemporary software documentation is as complicated as the software itself. During its lifecycle, the documentation accumulates a lot of near duplicate fragments, i.e. chunks of text that were copied from a single source and were later…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-10 D. V. Luciv , D. V. Koznov , G. A. Chernishev , A. N. Terekhov

Dockerfiles are one of the most prevalent kinds of DevOps artifacts used in industry. Despite their prevalence, there is a lack of sophisticated semantics-aware static analysis of Dockerfiles. In this paper, we introduce a dataset of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jordan Henkel , Christian Bird , Shuvendu K. Lahiri , Thomas Reps

Documenting frameworks provides its users and maintainers useful information on that software's architecture, design, and customization. Despite documentation's importance, the process of creating and maintaining it is considered to imply…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-29 João Santos , Filipe Correia

Using cloud-based computer vision services is gaining traction, where developers access AI-powered components through familiar RESTful APIs, not needing to orchestrate large training and inference infrastructures or curate/label training…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Alex Cummaudo , Rajesh Vasa , John Grundy , Mohamed Abdelrazek

Document understanding in real-world applications often requires processing heterogeneous, multi-page document packets containing multiple documents stitched together. Despite recent advances in visual document understanding, the…

Software documentation often struggles to catch up with the pace of software evolution. The lack of correct, complete, and up-to-date documentation results in an increasing number of documentation defects which could introduce delays in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Lakmal Silva , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Krzysztof Wnuk

Existing document-level machine translation resources are only available for a handful of languages, mostly high-resourced ones. To facilitate the training and evaluation of document-level translation and, more broadly, long-context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Dayyán O'Brien , Bhavitvya Malik , Ona de Gibert , Pinzhen Chen , Barry Haddow , Jörg Tiedemann

Effective communication, specifically through documentation, is the beating heart of collaboration among contributors in software development. Recent advancements in language models (LMs) have enabled the introduction of a new type of actor…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Bibek Poudel , Adam Cook , Sekou Traore , Shelah Ameli