Code fragment summarization
Annie T. T. Ying, Martin P. Robillard · 2013
Current research in software engineering has mostly focused on the retrieval accuracy aspect but little on the presentation aspect of code examples, e.g., how code examples are presented in a result page. We investigate the feasibility of summarizing code examples for better presenting a code example. Our algorithm based on machine learning could approximate summaries in an oracle manually generated by humans with a precision of 0.71. This result is promising as summaries with this level of precision achieved the same level of agreement as human annotators with each other.