Revisiting the Role of Natural Language Code Comments in Code Translation

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Auteurs principaux:	Gupta, Monika, Meena, Ajay, Choudhury, Anamitra Roy, Arya, Vijay, Bedathur, Srikanta
Format:	Preprint
Publié:	2026
Sujets:	Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence
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