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Library migration is a challenging problem, where most existing approaches rely on prior knowledge. This can be, for example, information derived from changelogs or statistical models of API usage. This paper addresses a different API…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Bruce Collie , Philip Ginsbach , Jackson Woodruff , Ajitha Rajan , Michael O'Boyle

Spreadsheets are a ubiquitous software tool, used for a wide variety of tasks such as financial modelling, statistical analysis and inventory management. Extracting meaningful information from such data can be a difficult task, especially…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-08-11 Derek Flood , Kevin Mc Daid , Fergal Mc Caffery

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which encapsulate the implementation of specific functions as interfaces, greatly improve the efficiency of modern software development. As numbers of APIs spring up nowadays, developers can hardly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Yun Peng , Shuqing Li , Wenwei Gu , Yichen Li , Wenxuan Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Michael Lyu

Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems often make use of machine learning techniques that are unfamiliar to end-users who are interested in analyzing clinical records. Although NLP has been widely used in extracting information from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Gaurav Trivedi , Phuong Pham , Wendy Chapman , Rebecca Hwa , Janyce Wiebe , Harry Hochheiser

Auxiliary function is a helpful component to improve language model's code generation ability. However, a systematic exploration of how they affect has yet to be done. In this work, we comprehensively evaluate the ability to utilize…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Seonghyeon Lee , Sanghwan Jang , Seongbo Jang , Dongha Lee , Hwanjo Yu

This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a browser extension that provides contextual help to users who hover over technological acronyms and abbreviations on web pages. The extension combines a curated technical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Christos Koutsiaris

Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) have become widely popular in recent times. Most of the commercial IPAs today support a wide range of skills including Alarms, Reminders, Weather Updates, Music, News, Factual Questioning-Answering,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Madan Gopal Jhawar , Vipindeep Vangala , Nishchay Sharma , Ankur Hayatnagarkar , Mansi Saxena , Swati Valecha

We describe an open-source toolkit for neural machine translation (NMT). The toolkit prioritizes efficiency, modularity, and extensibility with the goal of supporting NMT research into model architectures, feature representations, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Guillaume Klein , Yoon Kim , Yuntian Deng , Jean Senellart , Alexander M. Rush

Code search is a task to find programming codes that semantically match the given natural language queries. Even though some of the existing datasets for this task are multilingual on the programming language side, their query data are only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ryo Sekizawa , Nan Duan , Shuai Lu , Hitomi Yanaka

Due to the rise of AI applications, machine learning libraries have become far more accessible, with Python being the most common programming language to write them. Machine learning libraries tend to be updated periodically, which may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Stefanus Agus Haryono , Ferdian Thung , David Lo , Julia Lawall , Lingxiao Jiang

Third-party libraries are a cornerstone of fast application development. To enable efficient use, libraries must provide a well-designed API. An obscure API instead slows down the learning process and can lead to erroneous use. The usual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Lars Reimann , Günter Kniesel-Wünsche

We present an open-source Python library for building and using datasets where inputs are clusters of textual data, and outputs are sequences of real values representing one or more time series signals. The news-signals library supports…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chris Hokamp , Demian Gholipour Ghalandari , Parsa Ghaffari

Open-domain conversational search assistants aim at answering user questions about open topics in a conversational manner. In this paper we show how the Transformer architecture achieves state-of-the-art results in key IR tasks, leveraging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Rafael Ferreira , Mariana Leite , David Semedo , Joao Magalhaes

We present SDialog, an MIT-licensed open-source Python toolkit that unifies dialog generation, evaluation and mechanistic interpretability into a single end-to-end framework for building and analyzing LLM-based conversational agents. Built…

The construction of high-quality parallel corpora for translation research has increasingly evolved from simple sentence alignment to complex, multi-layered annotation tasks. This methodological shift presents significant challenges for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Baorong Huang , Ali Asiri

Data analysis is challenging as it requires synthesizing domain knowledge, statistical expertise, and programming skills. Assistants powered by large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, can assist analysts by translating natural…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ken Gu , Ruoxi Shang , Tim Althoff , Chenglong Wang , Steven M. Drucker

We present the second version of the Open Assistant Toolkit (OAT-v2), an open-source task-oriented conversational system for composing generative neural models. OAT-v2 is a scalable and flexible assistant platform supporting multiple…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Sophie Fischer , Federico Rossetto , Carlos Gemmell , Andrew Ramsay , Iain Mackie , Philip Zubel , Niklas Tecklenburg , Jeffrey Dalton

Recent availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to the development of numerous LLM-based approaches aimed at providing natural language interfaces for various end-user tasks. These end-user tasks in turn can typically be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Sudhir Agarwal , Anu Sreepathy , David H. Alonso , Prarit Lamba

This paper discusses the potential for creating academic resources (tools, data, and evaluation approaches) to support research in conversational search, by focusing on realistic information needs and conversational interactions.…

The World Wide Web is a vast and continuously changing source of information where searching is a frequent, and sometimes critical, user task. Searching is not always the user's primary goal but an ancillary task that is performed to find…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Gabriela Bosetti , Sergio Firmenich , Alejandro Fernandez , Marco Winckler , Gustavo Rossi