Automatic Comment Generation Tool --- AutoComment

This research project proposes a new automatic comment generation approach, which mines comments from a large programming Question and Answer (Q&A) site.

Publication

- Edmund Wong, Jinqiu Yang, Lin Tan, "AutoComment: Mining Question and Answer Sites for Automatic Comment Generation", International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2013
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Data Source

We are thankful to StackOverflow for providing a data dump of their website's public data. Please refer to the StackExchange blog for further details on how to obtain the data.

Code-description Mapping Database

Send us an email (lintan@purdue.edu, {e32wong, j223yang}@uwaterloo.ca) if you wish to obtain a copy of the code-description mapping database.

Generated Comments

The formatting of the generated output can be found here. The output of AutoComment for the 23 evaluated projects are listed below.

Java Projects:

• Eclipse SDK
• FreeCol
• FreeMind
• GanttProject
• Hibernate
• HSQLDB
• JabRef
• Jajuk
• JavaHMO
• JBidWatcher
• JFtp
• JHotDraw
• MegaMek
• Planeta
• Sweet Home 3D
• Vuze

Android Projects:

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Barcode Scanner
• FBReader
• KeePassDroid
• myTracks
• osmAnd

People

• Edmund Wong
• Jinqiu Yang
• Lin Tan

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