| Challenge: | Code summarization is the task of writing short, natural language descriptions of source code. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a dataset based on 2.1m pairs of Java methods and one sentence method descriptions from over 28k Java projects to write short, natural language code summarizations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that the proposed standards are more effective than previous versions. |
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