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Semantic code search, retrieving code that matches a given natural language query, is an important task to improve productivity in software engineering. Existing code search datasets face limitations: they rely on human annotators who…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jing Gong , Yanghui Wu , Linxi Liang , Yanlin Wang , Jiachi Chen , Mingwei Liu , Zibin Zheng

We propose a type-based resource usage analysis for the π-calculus extended with resource creation/access primitives. The goal of the resource usage analysis is to statically check that a program accesses resources such as files and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Naoki Kobayashi , Kohei Suenaga , Lucian Wischik

Software synthesis - the process of generating complete, general-purpose programs from specifications - has become a hot research topic in the past few years. For decades the problem was thought to be insurmountable: the search space of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-10-29 Jonathan Frankle

Elixir is a functional programming language with dynamic typing. We propose a gradual type system that makes it possible to perform type-checking on a significant fragment of the language. An important feature of the type system is that it…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mauricio Cassola , Agustín Talagorria , Alberto Pardo , Marcos Viera

Previous studies that used data from Stack Overflow to develop predictive models often employed limited benchmarks of 3-5 models or adopted arbitrary selection methods. Despite being insightful, their limited scope suggests the need to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Elijah Zolduoarrati , Sherlock A. Licorish , Nigel Stanger

Graph-based code indexing can improve context retrieval for LLM-based code agents by preserving call chains and dependency relationships that keyword search and similarity retrieval often miss. ABCoder is an open-source framework that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Junsong Pu , Yichen Li , Zhuangbin Chen

The automatic generation of source code is one of the long-lasting dreams in software engineering research. Several techniques have been proposed to speed up the writing of new code. For example, code completion techniques can recommend to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Matteo Ciniselli , Luca Pascarella , Emad Aghajani , Simone Scalabrino , Rocco Oliveto , Gabriele Bavota

Offline handwriting recognition (HWR) has improved significantly with the advent of deep learning architectures in recent years. Nevertheless, it remains a challenging problem and practical applications often rely on post-processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Andrey Totev , Tomas Ward

We propose a new technique based on program synthesis for automatically generating visualizations from natural language queries. Our method parses the natural language query into a refinement type specification using the intents-and-slots…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Qiaochu Chen , Shankara Pailoor , Celeste Barnaby , Abby Criswell , Chenglong Wang , Greg Durrett , Isil Dillig

When designing a new API for a large project, developers need to make smart design choices so that their code base can grow sustainably. To ensure that new API components are well designed, developers can learn from existing API components.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Sae Young Moon , Gregor Kerr , Fran Silavong , Sean Moran

Type annotations in Python enhance maintainability and error detection. However, generating these annotations manually is error prone and requires extra effort. Traditional automation approaches like static analysis, machine learning, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Varun Bharti , Shashwat Jha , Dhruv Kumar , Pankaj Jalote

There are two types of information in each handwritten word image: explicit information which can be easily read or derived directly, such as lexical content or word length, and implicit attributes such as the author's identity. Whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sheng He , Lambert Schomaker

Existing automatic story evaluation methods place a premium on story lexical level coherence, deviating from human preference. We go beyond this limitation by considering a novel \textbf{Story} \textbf{E}valuation method that mimics human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Hong Chen , Duc Minh Vo , Hiroya Takamura , Yusuke Miyao , Hideki Nakayama

Typestates are good at capturing dynamic states of a program as compared to normal types that can capture static structural properties of data and program. Although useful, typestates are suitable only for specifying and verifying program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Ashish Mishra , Deepak Dsouza , Y. N. Srikant

Recently, neural techniques have been used to generate source code automatically. While promising for declarative languages, these approaches achieve much poorer performance on datasets for imperative languages. Since a declarative language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Qingyuan Liang , Zeyu Sun , Qihao Zhu , Wenjie Zhang , Lian Yu , Yingfei Xiong , Lu Zhang

We introduce a new compile-time notion of type subsumption based on type simulation. We show how to apply this static subsumption relation to support a more intuitive, object oriented approach to generic programming of reusable, high…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Wouter Kuijper , Michael Weber

Writing style is a combination of consistent decisions associated with a specific author at different levels of language production, including lexical, syntactic, and structural. In this paper, we introduce a style-aware neural model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Fereshteh Jafariakinabad , Kien A. Hua

Language identification is a critical component of language processing pipelines (Jauhiainen et al.,2019) and is not a solved problem in real-world settings. We present a lightweight and effective language identifier that is robust to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Dominic Widdows , Chris Brew

A wide range of analysis and testing techniques targeting modern web apps rely on the automated exploration of their state space by firing events that mimic user interactions. However, finding out which elements are actionable in web apps…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Davood Mazinanian , Mohammad Bajammal , Ali Mesbah

Text classifiers are at the core of many NLP applications and use a variety of algorithmic approaches and software. This paper introduces infrastructure and methodologies for text classifiers based on large-scale regular expressions. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Igor L. Markov , Jacqueline Liu , Adam Vagner