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Software testing is an essential part of the software development cycle to improve the code quality. Typically, a unit test consists of a test prefix and a test oracle which captures the developer's intended behaviour. A known limitation of…

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This work explores the application of textual entailment in news claim verification and stance prediction using a new corpus in Arabic. The publicly available corpus comes in two perspectives: a version consisting of 4,547 true and false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Jude Khouja

Studies on grammatical error correction (GEC) have reported the effectiveness of pretraining a Seq2Seq model with a large amount of pseudodata. However, this approach requires time-consuming pretraining for GEC because of the size of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Satoru Katsumata , Mamoru Komachi

Generating tests automatically is a key and ongoing area of focus in software engineering research. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened up new opportunities, given their ability to perform a wide spectrum of tasks.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Azat Abdullin , Pouria Derakhshanfar , Annibale Panichella

Pretrained language models such as BERT, GPT have shown great effectiveness in language understanding. The auxiliary predictive tasks in existing pretraining approaches are mostly defined on tokens, thus may not be able to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Hongchao Fang , Sicheng Wang , Meng Zhou , Jiayuan Ding , Pengtao Xie

It is imperative to ensure the stability of every prediction made by a language model; that is, a language's prediction should remain consistent despite minor input variations, like word substitutions. In this paper, we investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Qian Lou , Xin Liang , Jiaqi Xue , Yancheng Zhang , Rui Xie , Mengxin Zheng

Transformers are widely used in natural language processing, where they consistently achieve state-of-the-art performance. This is mainly due to their attention-based architecture, which allows them to model rich linguistic relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Nikolaos Mylonas , Ioannis Mollas , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Coherence is an important aspect of text quality and is crucial for ensuring its readability. It is essential desirable for outputs from text generation systems like summarization, question answering, machine translation, question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Tushar Abhishek , Daksh Rawat , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma

Automated test case generation is important. However, the automatically generated test input does not always make sense, and the automated assertion is difficult to validate against the program under test. In this paper, we propose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Baoquan Cui , Rong Qu , Jian Zhang

Common self-improvement approaches for large language models (LLMs), such as STaR, iteratively fine-tune LLMs on self-generated solutions to improve their problem-solving ability. However, these approaches discard the large amounts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Arian Hosseini , Xingdi Yuan , Nikolay Malkin , Aaron Courville , Alessandro Sordoni , Rishabh Agarwal

Regression testing is crucial in ensuring that pure code refactoring does not adversely affect existing software functionality, but it can be expensive, accounting for half the cost of software maintenance. Automated test case generation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Alejandra Duque-Torres , Claus Klammer , Dietmar Pfahl , Stefan Fischer , Rudolf Ramler

The success of several constraint-based modeling languages such as OPL, ZINC, or COMET, appeals for better software engineering practices, particularly in the testing phase. This paper introduces a testing framework enabling automated test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Nadjib Lazaar , Arnaud Gotlieb , Lebbah Yahia

Developers frequently use APIs to implement certain functionalities, such as parsing Excel Files, reading and writing text files line by line, etc. Developers can greatly benefit from automatic API usage sequence generation based on natural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Mohammad Abdul Hadi , Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Ferdian Thung , Kien Gia Luong , Jiang Lingxiao , Fatemeh H. Fard , David Lo

Automated test generation is essential for software quality assurance, with coverage rate serving as a key metric to ensure thorough testing. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in improving test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-26 WeiZhe Xu , Mengyu Liu , Fanxin Kong

In this paper, we explore the challenges associated with establishing an end-to-end fact-checking pipeline in a real-world context, covering over 90 languages. Our real-world experimental benchmarks demonstrate that fine-tuning Transformer…

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Transformer-based large language models have remarkable potential to accelerate design optimization for applications such as drug development and materials discovery. Self-supervised pretraining of transformer models requires large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Pei Zhang , Logan Kearney , Debsindhu Bhowmik , Zachary Fox , Amit K. Naskar , John Gounley

In the literature, there is a rather clear segregation between manually written tests by developers and automatically generated ones. In this paper, we explore a third solution: to automatically improve existing test cases written by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Benjamin Danglot , Oscar Luis Vera-Pérez , Benoit Baudry , Martin Monperrus

Evaluating statement autoformalization, translating natural language mathematics into formal languages like Lean 4, remains a significant challenge, with few metrics, datasets, and standards to robustly measure progress. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Auguste Poiroux , Gail Weiss , Viktor Kunčak , Antoine Bosselut

This demo presents the implementation and usage details of GASSERT, the first tool to automatically improve assertion oracles. Assertion oracles are executable boolean expressions placed inside the program that should pass (return true) for…

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