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AI code generation tools have gained significant popularity among developers, who use them to assist in software development due to their capability to generate code. Existing studies mainly explored the quality, e.g., correctness and…

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Search engines play an essential role in our daily lives. Nonetheless, they are also very crucial in enterprise domain to access documents from various information sources. Since traditional search systems index the documents mainly by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Gizem Gezici

Code example is a crucial part of good documentation. It helps the developers to understand the documentation easily and use the corresponding code unit (e.g., method) properly. However, many official documentation still lacks (good) code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Junaed Younus Khan , Gias Uddin

While scaling training compute has led to remarkable improvements in large language models (LLMs), scaling inference compute has not yet yielded analogous gains. We hypothesize that a core missing component is a lack of diverse LLM outputs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Evan Wang , Federico Cassano , Catherine Wu , Yunfeng Bai , Will Song , Vaskar Nath , Ziwen Han , Sean Hendryx , Summer Yue , Hugh Zhang

The power of digital platforms is at the center of major ongoing policy and regulatory efforts. To advance existing debates, we designed and executed an experiment to measure the performative power of online search providers. Instantiated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Celestine Mendler-Dünner , Gabriele Carovano , Moritz Hardt

In order to measure website visibility in search engines, there are softwares for analytics and referencing follow-up. They permit to quantify website's efficacity of referencing and optimize its positionning in search engines. With regard…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-05-28 Sebastien Bruyere , Vincent Pillet , Luc Quoniam

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks aim to enhance Code Language Models (CLMs) by including another module for retrieving relevant context to construct the input prompt. However, these retrieval modules commonly use semantic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Minh Nguyen

It is widely known that Google Trends have become one of the most popular free tools used by forecasters both in academics and in the private and public sectors. There are many papers, from several different fields, concluding that Google…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-04-13 Marcelo C. Medeiros , Henrique F. Pires

Until recently, search engines were the predominant method for people to access online information. The recent emergence of large language models (LLMs) has given machines new capabilities such as the ability to generate new digital…

This study examines university students levels of satisfaction with generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools and traditional search engines as academic information sources. An electronic survey was distributed to students at U.S.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Brady D. Lund , Scott J. Warren , Zoe A. Teel

Information on the web is prodigious; searching relevant information is difficult making web users to rely on search engines for finding relevant information on the web. Search engines index and categorize web pages according to their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Jai Manral

Despite the occurrence of elegant algorithms for solving complex problem, exhaustive search has retained its significance since many real-life problems exhibit no regular structure and exhaustive search is the only possible solution. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Toni Stojanovski , Ljupco Krstevski

Cloud data storage solutions offer customers cost-effective and reduced data management. While attractive, data security issues remain to be a core concern. Traditional encryption protects stored documents, but hinders simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Marc Damie , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter

A publicly available dataset for federated search reflecting a real web environment has long been absent, making it difficult for researchers to test the validity of their federated search algorithms for the web setting. We present several…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Dong Nguyen , Thomas Demeester , Dolf Trieschnigg , Djoerd Hiemstra

Code retrieval is allowing software engineers to search codes through a natural language query, which relies on both natural language processing and software engineering techniques. There have been several attempts on code retrieval from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Mehdi Bahrami , N. C. Shrikanth , Yuji Mizobuchi , Lei Liu , Masahiro Fukuyori , Wei-Peng Chen , Kazuki Munakata

Developers often refactor code to improve the maintainability and comprehension of the software. There are many studies on refactoring activities in traditional software systems. However, refactoring in data-intensive systems is not well…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Biruk Asmare Muse , Foutse Khomh , Giuliano Antoniol

The performance of neural code search is significantly influenced by the quality of the training data from which the neural models are derived. A large corpus of high-quality query and code pairs is demanded to establish a precise mapping…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhensu Sun , Li Li , Yan Liu , Xiaoning Du , Li Li

Peer code review locates common coding standard violations and simple logical errors in the early phases of software development, and thus, reduces overall cost. Unfortunately, at GitHub, identifying an appropriate code reviewer for a pull…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , Jesse Redl , Jason A. Collins

Searching accounts for one of the most frequently performed computations over the Internet as well as one of the most important applications of outsourced computing, producing results that critically affect users' decision-making behaviors.…

Many people use search engines to find online guidance to solve computer or mobile device problems. Users frequently encounter challenges in identifying effective solutions from search results, often wasting time trying ineffective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Lei Ding , Jeshwanth Bheemanpally , Yi Zhang