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Software developers often reuse code from online sources such as Stack Overflow within their projects. However, the process of searching for code snippets and integrating them within existing source code can be tedious. In order to improve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Brittany Reid , Christoph Treude , Markus Wagner

Nowadays, developers often turn to Stack Overflow for solutions to daily problems, however, these code snippets are partial code that cannot be tested and verified properly. One way to test these code snippets is to transform them into APIs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yubo Mai , Zhipeng Gao , Xing Hu , Lingfeng Bao , Jingyuan Chen , Jianling Sun

With the ever-increasing scientific literature, there is a need on a natural language interface to bibliographic information retrieval systems to retrieve related information effectively. In this paper, we propose a natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Yongjun Zhu , Erjia Yan , Il-Yeol Song

Developers increasingly take to the Internet for code snippets to integrate into their programs. To save developers the time required to switch from their development environments to a web browser in the quest for a suitable code snippet,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Brock Angus Campbell , Christoph Treude

We propose using natural language outlines as a novel modality and interaction surface for providing AI assistance to developers throughout the software development process. An NL outline for a code function comprises multiple statements…

The impressive performance of large language models (LLMs) on code-related tasks has shown the potential of fully automated software development. In light of this, we introduce a new software engineering task, namely Natural Language to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Daoguang Zan , Ailun Yu , Wei Liu , Dong Chen , Bo Shen , Wei Li , Yafen Yao , Yongshun Gong , Xiaolin Chen , Bei Guan , Zhiguang Yang , Yongji Wang , Qianxiang Wang , Lizhen Cui

We investigate the use of Natural Language Inference (NLI) in automating requirements engineering tasks. In particular, we focus on three tasks: requirements classification, identification of requirements specification defects, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Mohamad Fazelnia , Viktoria Koscinski , Spencer Herzog , Mehdi Mirakhorli

Object-oriented Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) support software reuse by providing pre-implemented functionalities. Due to the huge number of included classes, reusing and understanding large APIs is a complex task. Otherwise,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Anas Shatnawi , Abdelhak Seriai , Houari Sahraoui , Zakarea Al-Shara

In this paper we present a framework for creating natural language interfaces to action-based applications. Our framework uses a number of reusable application-independent components, in order to reduce the effort of creating a natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stephen Chong , Riccardo Pucella

This paper tackles the challenging problem of automating code updates to fix deprecated API usages of open source libraries by analyzing their release notes. Our system employs a three-tier architecture: first, a web crawler service…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Petr Babkin , Nacho Navarro , Salwa Alamir , Sameena Shah

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is considered a representative task to test natural language understanding (NLU). In this work, we propose an extensible framework to collectively yet categorically test diverse Logical reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ishan Tarunesh , Somak Aditya , Monojit Choudhury

Current Text-to-Code models demonstrate impressive capabilities in generating executable code from natural language snippets. However, current studies focus on technical instructions and programmer-oriented language, and it is an open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Asaf Achi Mordechai , Yoav Goldberg , Reut Tsarfaty

While large language models (LLMs) now excel at code generation, a key aspect of software development is the art of refactoring: consolidating code into libraries of reusable and readable programs. In this paper, we introduce LILO, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Gabriel Grand , Lionel Wong , Maddy Bowers , Theo X. Olausson , Muxin Liu , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jacob Andreas

A key challenge to visualization authoring is the process of getting familiar with the complex user interfaces of authoring tools. Natural Language Interface (NLI) presents promising benefits due to its learnability and usability. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yun Wang , Zhitao Hou , Leixian Shen , Tongshuang Wu , Jiaqi Wang , He Huang , Haidong Zhang , Dongmei Zhang

Over the last few years natural language interfaces (NLI) for databases have gained significant traction both in academia and industry. These systems use very different approaches as described in recent survey papers. However, these systems…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Katrin Affolter , Kurt Stockinger , Abraham Bernstein

Library learning is the process of building a library of common functionalities from a given set of programs. Typically, this process is applied in the context of aiding program synthesis: concise functions can help the synthesizer produce…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Abhiram Bellur , Razan Alghamdi , Kidus Workneh , Joseph Izraelevitz

Reusing code is a common practice in software development: It helps developers speedup the implementation task while also reducing the chances of introducing bugs, given the assumption that the reused code has been tested, possibly in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Rosalia Tufano , Emad Aghajani , Gabriele Bavota

A Natural Language Interface (NLI) facilitates users to pose queries to retrieve information from a database without using any artificial language such as the Structured Query Language (SQL). Several applications in various domains…

Maintainable and general software allows developers to build robust applications efficiently, yet achieving these qualities often requires refactoring specialized solutions into reusable components. This challenge becomes particularly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ziga Kovacic , Justin T. Chiu , Celine Lee , Wenting Zhao , Kevin Ellis

Inspired by the great potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) for solving complex coding tasks, in this paper, we propose a novel approach, named Code2API, to automatically perform APIzation for Stack Overflow code snippets. Code2API does…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yubo Mai , Zhipeng Gao , Xing Hu , Lingfeng Bao , Yu Liu , Jianling Sun
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