The Struggles of LLMs in Cross-Lingual Code Clone Detection

Micheline Bénédicte Moumoula, Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

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DOI: 10.1145/3715764
Published: 2025-06-19
Container: Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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@article{allodium:10.1145/3715764,
  title = {The Struggles of LLMs in Cross-Lingual Code Clone Detection},
  author = {Micheline Bénédicte Moumoula and Abdoul Kader Kaboré and Jacques Klein and Tegawendé F. Bissyandé},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering},
  doi = {10.1145/3715764},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3715764}
}

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TI  - The Struggles of LLMs in Cross-Lingual Code Clone Detection
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AU  - Jacques Klein
AU  - Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
PY  - 2025
JO  - Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering
DO  - 10.1145/3715764
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Moumoula, M. B., Kaboré, A. K., Klein, J., & Bissyandé, T. F. (2025). The Struggles of LLMs in Cross-Lingual Code Clone Detection. Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715764

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