Co-training for Commit Classification

Jian Yi David Lee, Hai Leong Chieu


Abstract
Commits in version control systems (e.g. Git) track changes in a software project. Commits comprise noisy user-generated natural language and code patches. Automatic commit classification (CC) has been used to determine the type of code maintenance activities performed, as well as to detect bug fixes in code repositories. Much prior work occurs in the fully-supervised setting – a setting that can be a stretch in resource-scarce situations presenting difficulties in labeling commits. In this paper, we apply co-training, a semi-supervised learning method, to take advantage of the two views available – the commit message (natural language) and the code changes (programming language) – to improve commit classification.
Anthology ID:
2021.wnut-1.43
Volume:
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2021)
Month:
November
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Tim Baldwin, Afshin Rahimi
Venue:
WNUT
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
389–395
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.wnut-1.43
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.wnut-1.43
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Cite (ACL):
Jian Yi David Lee and Hai Leong Chieu. 2021. Co-training for Commit Classification. In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2021), pages 389–395, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Co-training for Commit Classification (Lee & Chieu, WNUT 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.wnut-1.43.pdf
Code
 davidleejy/wnut21-cotrain