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Title: leveraging generative ai: improving software metadata classification with generated code-comment pairs.

Abstract: In software development, code comments play a crucial role in enhancing code comprehension and collaboration. This research paper addresses the challenge of objectively classifying code comments as "Useful" or "Not Useful." We propose a novel solution that harnesses contextualized embeddings, particularly BERT, to automate this classification process. We address this task by incorporating generated code and comment pairs. The initial dataset comprised 9048 pairs of code and comments written in C, labeled as either Useful or Not Useful. To augment this dataset, we sourced an additional 739 lines of code-comment pairs and generated labels using a Large Language Model Architecture, specifically BERT. The primary objective was to build classification models that can effectively differentiate between useful and not useful code comments. Various machine learning algorithms were employed, including Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Gradient Boosting, Random Forest, and a Neural Network. Each algorithm was evaluated using precision, recall, and F1-score metrics, both with the original seed dataset and the augmented dataset. This study showcases the potential of generative AI for enhancing binary code comment quality classification models, providing valuable insights for software developers and researchers in the field of natural language processing and software engineering.

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2 Nov 2023  ·  Li Li , Xiang Gao , Hailong Sun , Chunming Hu , Xiaoyu Sun , Haoyu Wang , Haipeng Cai , Ting Su , Xiapu Luo , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein , John Grundy , Tao Xie , Haibo Chen , Huaimin Wang · Edit social preview

Mobile software engineering has been a hot research topic for decades. Our fellow researchers have proposed various approaches (with over 7,000 publications for Android alone) in this field that essentially contributed to the great success of the current mobile ecosystem. Existing research efforts mainly focus on popular mobile platforms, namely Android and iOS. OpenHarmony, a newly open-sourced mobile platform, has rarely been considered, although it is the one requiring the most attention as OpenHarmony is expected to occupy one-third of the market in China (if not in the world). To fill the gap, we present to the mobile software engineering community a research roadmap for encouraging our fellow researchers to contribute promising approaches to OpenHarmony. Specifically, we start by presenting a literature review of mobile software engineering, attempting to understand what problems have been targeted by the mobile community and how they have been resolved. We then summarize the existing (limited) achievements of OpenHarmony and subsequently highlight the research gap between Android/iOS and OpenHarmony. This research gap eventually helps in forming the roadmap for conducting software engineering research for OpenHarmony.

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