ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sun 12 Apr 2026 16:05 - 16:12 at Oceania VI - NLBSE Tools Chair(s): Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos, Moritz Mock

Code comments serve a crucial role in software development for documenting functionality, clarifying design choices, and assisting with issue tracking. They capture developers’ insights about the surrounding source code, serving as an essential resource for both human comprehension and automated analysis. Nevertheless, since comments are in natural language, they present challenges for machine-based code understanding. To address this, recent studies have applied natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning techniques to classify comments according to developers’ intentions. However, existing datasets for this task suffer from size limitations and class imbalance, as they rely on manual annotations and may not accurately represent the distribution of comments in real-world codebases. To overcome this issue, we introduce new synthetic oversampling and augmentation techniques based on high-quality data generation to enhance the NLBSE’26 challenge datasets. Our Synthetic Quality Oversampling Technique and Augmentation Technique (Q-SYNTH) yield promising results, improving the base classifier by 2.56%. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/ThomBors/NLBSE2026.

Sun 12 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

16:00 - 18:30
NLBSE ToolsNLBSE at Oceania VI
Chair(s): Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos Colorado State University, USA, Moritz Mock Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
16:00
5m
Day opening
NLBSE Tool Competition Opening
NLBSE

16:05
7m
Short-paper
High-quality data augmentation for code comment classification
NLBSE
A: Thomas Borsani , A: Andrea Rosani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, A: Giuseppe Di Fatta
16:12
7m
Short-paper
TraCC: Efficient Multi-Label Code Comment Classification Through Knowledge Distillation and Adaptive ThresholdingVirtual Attendance
NLBSE
A: Pir Sami Ullah Shah FAST National University, A: Abdullah Ashfaq National University of Computer & emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), A: Ahmed Fasseh National University of Computer & emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), A: Dilawar Shah National University of Computer & emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES)
16:19
7m
Short-paper
X-LoRA MME: Multi-Model Ensemble with Mixture of Experts for Code Comment ClassificationVirtual Attendance
NLBSE
16:26
7m
Short-paper
Distilling Semantics: Efficient Multi-label Code Comment ClassificationVirtual Attendance
NLBSE
A: Muhammad Abdul Majeed National University of Computer & emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), A: Ahmed Bin Asim National University of Computer & emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES)
16:33
5m
Product announcement
NLBSE Tool Competition Awards and Closing
NLBSE
C: Moritz Mock Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, C: Pooja Rani University of Zurich
16:38
1h50m
Tutorial
NLBSE NVIDIA Tutorial: Building an LLM-based coding copilot
NLBSE
18:28
2m
Day closing
NLBSE Closing
NLBSE
P: Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos Colorado State University, USA