Smart contract, a term which was originally coined to refer to the automation of legal
contracts in general, has recently seen much interest due to the advent of blockchain …

Code comments are important artifacts in software systems and play a paramount role in
many software engineering (SE) tasks related to maintenance and program comprehension …

Source code summarization involves creating brief descriptions of source code in natural
language. These descriptions are a key component of software documentation such as …

Software developers need access to different kinds of information which is often dispersed
among different documentation sources, such as API documentation or Stack Overflow. We …

(Good) Software documentation provides developers and users with a description of what a
software system does, how it operates, and how it should be used. For example, technical …

The n-gram language model, which has its roots in statistical natural language processing,
has been shown to successfully capture the repetitive and predictable regularities …

In theory,(good) documentation is an invaluable asset to any software project, as it helps
stakeholders to use, understand, maintain, and evolve a system. In practice, however …

Software bugs can cause significant financial loss and even the loss of human lives. To
reduce such loss, developers devote substantial efforts to fixing bugs, which generally …

In recent years, automatic program repair has been a hot research topic in the software
engineering community, and many approaches have been proposed. Although these …

We advocate for a paradigm shift in supporting the information needs of developers,
centered around the concept of automated on-demand developer documentation. Currently …