• DocumentCode
    3248928
  • Title

    JSummarizer: An automatic generator of natural language summaries for Java classes

  • Author

    Moreno, L. ; Marcus, Andrian ; Pollock, Lori ; Vijay-Shanker, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    20-21 May 2013
  • Firstpage
    230
  • Lastpage
    232
  • Abstract
    JSummarizer is an Eclipse plug-in for automatically generating natural language summaries of Java classes. The summary is based on the stereotype of the class, which implicitly encodes the design intent of the class and is automatically inferred by JSummarizer. The tool uses a set of predefined heuristics to determine what information will be reflected in the summary, and it uses natural language processing and generation techniques to form the summary. The generated summaries can be used to re-document the code and to help developers to easier understand large and complex classes.
  • Keywords
    Java; natural language processing; Eclipse plug-in; JSummarizer; Java classes; automatic generator; generation techniques; natural language processing; natural language summaries; Conferences; Documentation; Java; Natural languages; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Source code summarization; documentation generation; program comprehension;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2013 IEEE 21st International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • ISSN
    1063-6897
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613855
  • Filename
    6613855