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A Four-Language Corpus of 11,809 Novice Comment-Code Pairs (Python, Java, C, C++) Abkadyr Dostiyar (25152423) Empirical software engineering Applications in social sciences and education Data mining and knowledge discovery code comments novice programmers computer science education dataset empirical software engineering comment taxonomy CS1 source code analysis Python Java C C++ This dataset accompanies the paper "Can a Professional Comment Taxonomy Label Student Code? A Four-Language Corpus of 11,809 Comment-Code Pairs" submitted to SIGCSE '27.<h3 dir="ltr">Overview</h3>The corpus contains 11,809 cleaned and associate-mapped novice comment-code pairs extracted across four programming languages: Java (7,194), C (2,493), Python (2,092), and C++ (30). The dataset was constructed by parsing source files with Tree-sitter from eight public introductory programming repositories (Menagerie, Rubric Is All You Need, CodeStream, Prutor, IntroClass, DCU, Refactory, and Python Code Plagiarism). All pairs underwent Zhang-style cleaning rules followed by novice-specific filtering (deduplication, instructor boilerplate removal, and code-only fragment removal). <h3 dir="ltr">File Format & Schema</h3>The primary file `AbkadyrDostiyar_final_dataset_11809.jsonl` is formatted as JSON Lines. Each entry contains:<ul><li>`comment_text`: Cleaned text of the inline or block comment</li><li>`code_text`: Associated code block mapped via AST association rules</li><li>`language`: Programming language (`java`, `c`, `python`, `cpp`)</li></ul>License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) 2026-10-01T05:43:13Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.34039194.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/_i_A_Four-Language_Corpus_of_11_809_Novice_Comment-Code_Pairs_Python_Java_C_C_i_/34039194 CC BY 4.0