STACC: Code Comment Classification using SentenceTransformers
Ali Al-Kaswan (TU Delft - Software Engineering)
M. Izadi (TU Delft - Software Engineering)
Arie van Van Deursen (TU Delft - Software Technology)
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Abstract
Code comments are a key resource for information about software artefacts. Depending on the use case, only some types of comments are useful. Thus, automatic approaches to clas-sify these comments have been proposed. In this work, we address this need by proposing, STACC, a set of SentenceTransformers- based binary classifiers. These lightweight classifiers are trained and tested on the NLBSE Code Comment Classification tool competition dataset, and surpass the baseline by a significant margin, achieving an average Fl score of 0.74 against the baseline of 0.31, which is an improvement of 139%. A replication package, as well as the models themselves, are publicly available.