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A Neural Architecture for Generating Natural Language Descriptions from Source Code Changes

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arxiv 1704.04856 v1 pith:YXBKCKXO submitted 2017-04-17 cs.CL

classification cs.CL
keywords codesourceapproacharchitecturechangesdescriptionsintroducedlanguage
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We propose a model to automatically describe changes introduced in the source code of a program using natural language. Our method receives as input a set of code commits, which contains both the modifications and message introduced by an user. These two modalities are used to train an encoder-decoder architecture. We evaluated our approach on twelve real world open source projects from four different programming languages. Quantitative and qualitative results showed that the proposed approach can generate feasible and semantically sound descriptions not only in standard in-project settings, but also in a cross-project setting.

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