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Improper parsing of attacker-controlled input is a leading source of software security vulnerabilities, especially when programmers transcribe informal format descriptions in RFCs into efficient parsing logic in low-level, memory unsafe…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Sarah Fakhoury , Markus Kuppe , Shuvendu K. Lahiri , Tahina Ramananandro , Nikhil Swamy

Formal software specification is known to enable early error detection and explicit invariants, yet it has seen limited industrial adoption due to its high notation overhead and the expertise required to use traditional formal languages.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Antonio Abu Nassar , Eitan Farchi

AI agents are increasingly transacting on behalf of users -- delegating tasks, spending budgets, and negotiating with unfamiliar counterparties. Unlike human marketplaces, which operate under institutional designs refined over centuries,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xuan Liu , Haoyang Shang , Haojian Jin

This paper presents exploration of speech enable operating systems, software, and applications. It begins with a description of how such systems work, and the level of accuracy that can be expected. It explains the applications of speech…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Kamlesh Sharma , T. Suryakanthi , T. V. Prasad

Large Language Models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents for complex real-world tasks, yet existing systems often focus on isolated improvements without a unifying design for robustness and adaptability. We propose a generalist…

This paper presents a software component that generates a user interface structure for populating a domain ontology. The core of this work is an algorithm that takes an ontology and returns a structure describing the user interface. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Bruno Szilagyi , Edelweis Rohrer , Regina Motz

We propose a unified Implicit Dialog framework for goal-oriented, information seeking tasks of Conversational Search applications. It aims to enable dialog interactions with domain data without replying on explicitly encoded the rules but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Song Feng , R. Chulaka Gunasekara , Sunil Shashidhara , Kshitij P. Fadnis , Lazaros C. Polymenakos

Artificial audition aims at providing hearing capabilities to machines, computers and robots. Existing frameworks in robot audition offer interesting sound source localization, tracking and separation performance, although involve a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 François Grondin , Dominic Létourneau , Cédric Godin , Jean-Samuel Lauzon , Jonathan Vincent , Simon Michaud , Samuel Faucher , François Michaud

Developing intelligent virtual characters has attracted a lot of attention in the recent years. The process of creating such characters often involves a team of creative authors who describe different aspects of the characters in natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Sepehr Janghorbani , Ashutosh Modi , Jakob Buhmann , Mubbasir Kapadia

In this paper we present AIDA, which is an active inference-based agent that iteratively designs a personalized audio processing algorithm through situated interactions with a human client. The target application of AIDA is to propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Albert Podusenko , Bart van Erp , Magnus Koudahl , Bert de Vries

This paper presents Idiolect, an open source (https://github.com/OpenASR/idiolect) IDE plugin for voice coding and a novel approach to building bots that allows for users to define custom commands on-the-fly. Unlike traditional chatbots,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Breandan Considine , Nicholas Albion , Xujie Si

Our goal in this paper is to establish a means for a dialogue platform to be able to cope with open domains considering the possible interaction between the embodied agent and humans. To this end we present an algorithm capable of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Artur Ventura , Nuno Diegues , David Martins de Matos

This document describes the Odin framework, which is a domain-independent platform for developing rule-based event extraction models. Odin aims to be powerful (the rule language allows the modeling of complex syntactic structures) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega , Gus Hahn-Powell , Mihai Surdeanu

The multiplicity of software projects' stakeholders and activities leads to the multiplicity of software specification views and thus creates the need to establish mutual consistency between them. The process of establishing such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Alexandr Naumchev

Over the years, research in system identification has provided a rich set of methods for learning dynamical models, together with well-established theoretical guarantees. In practice, however, the choice of model class, training algorithm,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dario Piga , Marco Forgione

The speech code is a vehicle of language: it defines a set of forms used by a community to carry information. Such a code is necessary to support the linguistic interactions that allow humans to communicate. How then may a speech code be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

We introduce IsalProgram (Instruction Set and Language for Programming), a novel assembly-like programming language with three distinctive theoretical properties: (1) it is a regular language in the sense of formal language theory, meaning…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ezequiel López-Rubio

Graphical user interface (GUI) agents have advanced rapidly but still struggle with complex tasks involving novel UI elements, long-horizon actions, and personalized trajectories. In this work, we introduce Instruction Agent, a GUI agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yinheng Li , Hailey Hultquist , Justin Wagle , Kazuhito Koishida

Natural language programming is a promising approach to enable end users to instruct new tasks for intelligent agents. However, our formative study found that end users would often use unclear, ambiguous or vague concepts when naturally…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Toby Jia-Jun Li , Marissa Radensky , Justin Jia , Kirielle Singarajah , Tom M. Mitchell , Brad A. Myers

This technical white paper introduces the Interactive Agents Call Tree (IACT), a computational model designed to address the limitations of static, hard-coded agent workflows. Unlike traditional systems that require pre-defined graphs or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Pengju Lu