When the javadoc contains tags, like the one above, the generated description contains something like
Retrieves the representation of the {@link M2MResource} which holds a
I've tracked the problem to ParserHelper.getInheritableCommentText(), which uses methodDoc.commentText(). The documentation of that method actually says, that tags like {@link} will be removed, but that's not true.
Instead the method should be modified to use methodDoc.inlineTags() and convert the tags to string.