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The reuse at the component level is generally more effective than the one at the object-oriented class level. This is due to the granularity level where components expose their functionalities at an abstract level compared to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Anas Shatnawi , Hudhaifa Shatnawi , Mohamed Aymen Saied , Zakarea Al Shara , Houari Sahraoui , Abdelhak Seriai

In this paper we present the Task-Aware MPI library (TAMPI) that integrates both blocking and non-blocking MPI primitives with task-based programming models. The TAMPI library leverages two new runtime APIs to improve both programmability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Kevin Sala , Xavier Teruel , Josep M. Perez , Antonio J. Peña , Vicenç Beltran , Jesus Labarta

Native language identification (NLI) is the task of training (via supervised machine learning) a classifier that guesses the native language of the author of a text. This task has been extensively researched in the last decade, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Barbara Berti , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Sebastiani

There is a vast gap in the quality of IDE tooling between static languages like Java and dynamic languages like Python or JavaScript. Modern frameworks and libraries in these languages heavily use their dynamic capabilities to achieve the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Franciszek Piszcz

The challenge in learning abstract concepts from images in an unsupervised fashion lies in the required integration of visual perception and generalizable relational reasoning. Moreover, the unsupervised nature of this task makes it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Antonia Wüst , Wolfgang Stammer , Quentin Delfosse , Devendra Singh Dhami , Kristian Kersting

Accurate requirement-to-code traceability is crucial for software maintenance. However, existing IR- and embedding-based methods are heavily dependent on lexical similarity, often yielding incomplete or inconsistent links across projects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yifei Wang , Jacky Keung , Xiaoxue Ma , Zhenyu Mao , Kehui Chen , Yishu Li

Large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's Codex, have demonstrated their potential to generate code from natural language descriptions across a wide range of programming tasks. Several benchmarks have recently emerged to evaluate the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sarah Fakhoury , Saikat Chakraborty , Madan Musuvathi , Shuvendu K. Lahiri

Modernizing large legacy systems remains a major challenge in enterprise environments, particularly when migration must preserve domain-specific logic while conforming to internal architectural frameworks and shared APIs. Direct application…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zahra Moti , Heydar Soudani , Jonck van der Kogel

Developers rely on third-party library Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) when developing software. However, libraries typically come with assumptions and API usage constraints, whose violation results in API misuse. API misuses may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Akalanka Galappaththi , Sarah Nadi , Christoph Treude

When analyzing programs, large libraries pose significant challenges to static points-to analysis. A popular solution is to have a human analyst provide points-to specifications that summarize relevant behaviors of library code, which can…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Osbert Bastani , Rahul Sharma , Alex Aiken , Percy Liang

A central challenge in program induction has long been the trade-off between symbolic and neural approaches. Symbolic methods offer compositional generalisation and data efficiency, yet their scalability is constrained by formalisms such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Matthew V. Macfarlane , Clément Bonnet , Herke van Hoof , Levi H. S. Lelis

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in multilingual contexts, yet their capacity for consistent, logically grounded alignment across languages remains underexplored. We present a controlled evaluation framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Samir Abdaljalil , Erchin Serpedin , Khalid Qaraqe , Hasan Kurban

Searching code is a common task that developers perform to understand APIs, learn common code patterns, and navigate code. Currently, developers most commonly search using keywords and regular expressions that are easy to use and widely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Ben Limpanukorn , Yanjun Wang , Zach Patterson , Pranav Garg , Murali Krishna Ramanathan , Xiaofei Ma , Anoop Deoras , Miryung Kim

Natural language processing for programming aims to use NLP techniques to assist programming. It is increasingly prevalent for its effectiveness in improving productivity. Distinct from natural language, a programming language is highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Qingfu Zhu , Xianzhen Luo , Fang Liu , Cuiyun Gao , Wanxiang Che

Software developers use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) of libraries and frameworks extensively while writing programs. In this context, the recommendations provided in code completion pop-ups help developers choose the desired…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Andrea Renika D'Souza , Di Yang , Cristina V. Lopes

Modern software development depends on APIs to reuse code and increase productivity. As most software systems, these libraries and frameworks also evolve, which may break existing clients. However, the main reasons to introduce breaking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Aline Brito , Laerte Xavier , Andre Hora , Marco Tulio Valente

This paper introduces Aptly, a platform designed to democratize mobile app development, particularly for young learners. Aptly integrates a Large Language Model (LLM) with App Inventor, enabling users to create apps using their natural…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Evan W. Patton , David Y. J. Kim , Ashley Granquist , Robin Liu , Arianna Scott , Jennet Zamanova , Harold Abelson

The Natural Language Inference (NLI) task is an important task in modern NLP, as it asks a broad question to which many other tasks may be reducible: Given a pair of sentences, does the first entail the second? Although the state-of-the-art…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Zaid Marji , Animesh Nighojkar , John Licato

Utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) for complex tasks is challenging, often involving a time-consuming and uncontrollable prompt engineering process. This paper introduces a novel human-LLM interaction framework, Low-code LLM. It…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuzhe Cai , Shaoguang Mao , Wenshan Wu , Zehua Wang , Yaobo Liang , Tao Ge , Chenfei Wu , Wang You , Ting Song , Yan Xia , Jonathan Tien , Nan Duan , Furu Wei

A new Python API, integrated within the NLTK suite, offers access to the FrameNet 1.7 lexical database. The lexicon (structured in terms of frames) as well as annotated sentences can be processed programatically, or browsed with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Nathan Schneider , Chuck Wooters