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Commit messages, which summarize the source code changes in natural language, are essential for program comprehension and software evolution understanding. Unfortunately, due to the lack of direct motivation, commit messages are sometimes neglected by developers, making it necessary to automatically generate such messages. State-of-the-art adopts learning based approaches such as neural machine translation models for the commit message generation problem. However, they tend to ignore the code structure information and suffer from the out-of-vocabulary issue. In this paper, we propose CoDiSum to address the above two limitations. In particular, we first extract both code structure and code semantics from the source code changes, and then jointly model these two sources of information so as to better learn the representations of the code changes. Moreover, we augment the model with copying mechanism to further mitigate the out-of-vocabulary issue. Experimental evaluations on real data demonstrate that the proposed approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art in terms of accurately generating the commit messages. 

Recommending suitable tags for online textual content is a key building block for better content organization and consumption. In this paper, we identify three pillars that impact the accuracy of tag recommendation: (1) sequential text modeling meaning that the intrinsic sequential ordering as well as different areas of text might have an important implication on the corresponding tag(s) , (2) tag correlation meaning that the tags for a certain piece of textual content are often semantically correlated with each other, and (3) content-tag overlapping meaning that the vocabularies of content and tags are overlapped. However, none of the existing methods consider all these three aspects, leading to a suboptimal tag recommendation. In this paper, we propose an integral model to encode all the three aspects in a coherent encoder-decoder framework. In particular, (1) the encoder models the semantics of the textual content via Recurrent Neural Networks with the attention mechanism, (2) the decoder tackles the tag correlation with a prediction path, and (3) a shared embedding layer and an indicator function across encoder-decoder address the content-tag overlapping. Experimental results on three realworld datasets demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms the existing methods in terms of recommendation accuracy.