Towards automatically generating summary comments for Java methods

ASE'10 - Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 43-52

  Sridhara, Giriprasad ^a   Hill, Emily ^a   Muppaneni, Divya ^a   Pollock, Lori ^a   Vijay Shanker, K ^a  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Documentation

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTATION; JAVA METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 78649762925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1858996.1859006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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