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Tue 11 Oct 2022 14:00 - 14:10 at Banquet A - Technical Session 6 - Source Code Manipulation Chair(s): Collin McMillan

Source code documentation is an important artifact for efficient software development. Code documentation could greatly benefit from automation since manual documentation is often labouring, resource and time-intensive. In this paper, we employed Codex for automatic code documentation creation. Codex is a GPT-3 based model pre-trained on both natural and programming languages. We find that Codex outperforms existing techniques even with basic settings like one-shot learning (i.e., providing only one example for training). Codex achieves an overall BLEU score of 20.6 for six different programming languages (11.2% improvement over earlier state-of-the-art techniques). Thus, Codex shows promise and warrants in-depth future studies for automatic code documentation generation to support diverse development tasks.

Tue 11 Oct

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14:00 - 15:30
Technical Session 6 - Source Code ManipulationNIER Track / Research Papers / Late Breaking Results at Banquet A
Chair(s): Collin McMillan University of Notre Dame
14:00
10m
Vision and Emerging Results
Automatic Code Documentation Generation Using GPT-3
NIER Track
Junaed Younus Khan University of Calgary, Gias Uddin University of Calgary, Canada
14:10
20m
Research paper
Automated Feedback Generation for Competition-Level Code
Research Papers
Jialu Zhang Yale University, De Li The MathWorks, Inc., John C. Kolesar Yale University, Hanyuan Shi N/A, Ruzica Piskac Yale University
14:30
10m
Paper
Generalizability of Code Clone Detection on CodeBERT
Late Breaking Results
Tim Sonnekalb German Aerospace Center (DLR), Bernd Gruner German Aerospace Center (DLR), Clemens-Alexander Brust German Aerospace Center (DLR), Patrick Mäder Technische Universität Ilmenau
DOI Pre-print
14:40
10m
Vision and Emerging Results
Next Syntactic-Unit Code Completion and Applications
NIER Track
Hoan Anh Nguyen Amazon, Aashish Yadavally University of Texas at Dallas, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas
14:50
20m
Research paper
CrystalBLEU: Precisely and Efficiently Measuring the Similarity of CodeVirtualACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Research Papers
Aryaz Eghbali University of Stuttgart, Germany, Michael Pradel University of Stuttgart
15:10
20m
Research paper
Low-Resources Project-Specific Code SummarizationVirtual
Research Papers
Rui Xie Peking University, Tianxiang Hu Peking University, Wei Ye Peking University, Shikun Zhang Peking University