Why my code summarization model does not Work: Code comment improvement with category prediction

• Main Authors: CHEN, Qiuyuan, XIA, Xin, HU, Han, LO, David, LI, Shanping
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Code summarization; code comment; comment classification; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6706; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7709/viewcontent/TOSEM_Qiuyuan_Chen_2021_Why_My_Code_Summarization_Model_Does_Not_Work.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Code summarization aims at generating a code comment given a block of source code and it is normally performed by training machine learning algorithms on existing code block-comment pairs. Code comments in practice have different intentions. For example, some code comments might explain how the meth...