Alexander LeClairUniversity of Notre Dame | ND · Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Alexander LeClair
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Notre Dame working for Collin McMillan in the field of software engineering. My current research interests include automatic source code comprehension, source code search, program analysis, and natural language processing. My current work is in automatic documentation and source code representation for machine learning.
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Software Categorization is the task of organizing software into groups that broadly describe the behavior of the software, such as “editors” or “science.” Categorization plays an important role in several maintenance tasks, such as repository navigation and feature elicitation. Current approaches attempt to cast the problem as text classification,...
Source code summarization -- creating natural language descriptions of source code behavior -- is a rapidly-growing research topic with applications to automatic documentation generation, program comprehension, and software maintenance. Traditional techniques relied on heuristics and templates built manually by human experts. Recently, data-driven...
Source Code Summarization is the task of writing short, natural language descriptions of source code. The main use for these descriptions is in software documentation e.g. the one-sentence Java method descriptions in JavaDocs. Code summarization is rapidly becoming a popular research problem, but progress is restrained due to a lack of suitable dat...
A source code summary of a subroutine is a brief description of that subroutine. Summaries underpin a majority of documentation consumed by programmers, such as the method summaries in JavaDocs. Source code summarization is the task of writing these summaries. At present, most state-of-the-art approaches for code summarization are neural network-ba...
Software documentation largely consists of short, natural language summaries of the subroutines in the software. These summaries help programmers quickly understand what a subroutine does without having to read the source code him or herself. The task of writing these descriptions is called "source code summarization" and has been a target of resea...
Automatic source code summarization is the task of generating natural language descriptions for source code. Automatic code summarization is a rapidly expanding research area, especially as the community has taken greater advantage of advances in neural network and AI technologies. In general, source code summariza-tion techniques use the source co...
Automatic source code summarization is the task of generating natural language descriptions for source code. Automatic code summarization is a rapidly expanding research area, especially as the community has taken greater advantage of advances in neural network and AI technologies. In general, source code summarization techniques use the source cod...
descriptions of subroutines are short (usually one-sentence) natural language explanations of a subroutine's behavior and purpose in a program. These summaries are ubiquitous in documentation, and many tools such as JavaDocs and Doxygen generate documentation built around them. And yet, extracting summaries from unstructured source code repositorie...
Source Code Summarization is the task of writing short, natural language descriptions of source code. The main use for these descriptions is in software documentation e.g. the one-sentence Java method descriptions in JavaDocs. Code summarization is rapidly becoming a popular research problem, but progress is restrained due to a lack of suitable dat...
Source code summarization -- creating natural language descriptions of source code behavior -- is a rapidly-growing research topic with applications to automatic documentation generation, program comprehension, and software maintenance. Traditional techniques relied on heuristics and templates built manually by human experts. Recently, data-driven...
Software Categorization is the task of organizing software into groups that broadly describe the behavior of the software, such as "editors" or "science." Categorization plays an important role in several maintenance tasks, such as repository navigation and feature elicitation. Current approaches attempt to cast the problem as text classification,...
While simple pulse-rate is perhaps the most common cardiovascular assessment, recent research suggests that there is valuable information contained in the actual pulse waveform. As the first step toward developing a feature-based haptic suite, this work investigates the ability of a consumer-grade haptic device to represent arterial touch as a func...
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular disease was responsible for 17.5 million deaths in 2012, or 30% of all deaths. Recent research suggests that, in addition to pulse rate, the pulse waveform itself contains useful diagnostic information. To explore tactile repre...