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Commit messages play a crucial role in collaborative software development. They provide a clear and concise description of the changes made to the source code. However, many commit messages among students' projects lack useful information.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Iris Ma , Cristina V. Lopes

Transfer learning has proven to be crucial in advancing the state of speech and natural language processing research in recent years. In speech, a model pre-trained by self-supervised learning transfers remarkably well on multiple tasks.…

A central function of code review is to increase understanding; helping reviewers understand a code change aids in knowledge transfer and finding bugs. Comments in code largely serve a similar purpose, helping future readers understand the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Nikitha Rao , Jason Tsay , Martin Hirzel , Vincent J. Hellendoorn

During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models. In the area of dialogue systems, the trend is less obvious, and most practical systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Iulian Vlad Serban , Ryan Lowe , Peter Henderson , Laurent Charlin , Joelle Pineau

Conventional topic models are ineffective for topic extraction from microblog messages, because the data sparseness exhibited in short messages lacking structure and contexts results in poor message-level word co-occurrence patterns. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jing Li , Yan Song , Zhongyu Wei , Kam-Fai Wong

GitHub and GitLab are widely used collaborative platforms whose issue-tracking systems contain large volumes of unstructured text, including logs, code snippets, and configuration examples. This creates a significant risk of accidental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Md Nafiu Rahman , Sadif Ahmed , Zahin Wahab , Gias Uddin , Rifat Shahriyar

Text analysis of social media for sentiment, topic analysis, and other analysis depends initially on the selection of keywords and phrases that will be used to create the research corpora. However, keywords that researchers choose may occur…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Philip Feldman , Aaron Dant , James R. Foulds , Shemei Pan

Many recent advances in neural information retrieval models, which predict top-K items given a query, learn directly from a large training set of (query, item) pairs. However, they are often insufficient when there are many previously…

Task-specific scores are often used to optimize for and evaluate the performance of conditional text generation systems. However, such scores are non-differentiable and cannot be used in the standard supervised learning paradigm. Hence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 James O' Neill , Danushka Bollegala

Generative encoder-decoder models offer great promise in developing domain-general dialog systems. However, they have mainly been applied to open-domain conversations. This paper presents a practical and novel framework for building…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Tiancheng Zhao , Allen Lu , Kyusong Lee , Maxine Eskenazi

We investigate multi-task learning approaches that use a shared feature representation for all tasks. To better understand the transfer of task information, we study an architecture with a shared module for all tasks and a separate output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Sen Wu , Hongyang R. Zhang , Christopher Ré

Knowledge transfer is fundamental to human collaboration and is therefore common in software engineering. Pair programming is a prominent instance. With the rise of AI coding assistants, developers now not only work with human partners but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Alisa Welter , Niklas Schneider , Tobias Dick , Kallistos Weis , Christof Tinnes , Marvin Wyrich , Sven Apel

Given the increasing popularity of customer service dialogue on Twitter, analysis of conversation data is essential to understand trends in customer and agent behavior for the purpose of automating customer service interactions. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Shereen Oraby , Pritam Gundecha , Jalal Mahmud , Mansurul Bhuiyan , Rama Akkiraju

With growing societal acceptance and increasing cost efficiency due to mass production, service robots are beginning to cross from the industrial to the social domain. Currently, customer service robots tend to be digital and emulate social…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Jordan J. Bird

The use of large language models like ChatGPT in code review offers promising efficiency gains but also raises concerns about correctness and safety. Existing evaluation methods for code review generation either rely on automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Robert Heumüller , Frank Ortmeier

Resolution of complex post-production issues in large-scale open-source software (OSS) projects requires significant cognitive effort, as developers need to go through long, unstructured and fragmented issue discussion threads before that.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nazia Shehnaz Joynab , Soneya Binta Hossain

Building robust and general dialogue models for spoken conversations is challenging due to the gap in distributions of spoken and written data. This paper presents our approach to build generalized models for the Knowledge-grounded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Ruijie Yan , Shuang Peng , Haitao Mi , Liang Jiang , Shihui Yang , Yuchi Zhang , Jiajun Li , Liangrui Peng , Yongliang Wang , Zujie Wen

User Satisfaction Estimation (USE) is an important yet challenging task in goal-oriented conversational systems. Whether the user is satisfied with the system largely depends on the fulfillment of the user's needs, which can be implicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yang Deng , Wenxuan Zhang , Wai Lam , Hong Cheng , Helen Meng

Argument mining tasks require an informed range of low to high complexity linguistic phenomena and commonsense knowledge. Previous work has shown that pre-trained language models are highly effective at encoding syntactic and semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 João Rodrigues , Ruben Branco , António Branco

Many platforms exploit collaborative tagging to provide their users with faster and more accurate results while searching or navigating. Tags can communicate different concepts such as the main features, technologies, functionality, and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Maliheh Izadi , Abbas Heydarnoori , Georgios Gousios