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The names of variables and functions serve as implicit documentation and are instrumental for program comprehension. But choosing good meaningful names is hard. We perform a sequence of experiments in which a total of 334 subjects are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Dror G. Feitelson , Ayelet Mizrahi , Nofar Noy , Aviad Ben Shabat , Or Eliyahu , Roy Sheffer

Method names are crucial to program comprehension and maintenance. Recently, many approaches have been proposed to automatically recommend method names and detect inconsistent names. Despite promising, their results are still sub-optimal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Jie Zhu , Lingwei Li , Li Yang , Xiaoxiao Ma , Chun Zuo

Modern recommender systems perform large-scale retrieval by first embedding queries and item candidates in the same unified space, followed by approximate nearest neighbor search to select top candidates given a query embedding. In this…

Traditional query expansion techniques for addressing vocabulary mismatch problems in information retrieval are context-sensitive and may lead to performance degradation. As an alternative, document expansion research has gained attention,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Jisu Kim , Jinhee Park , Changhyun Jeon , Jungwoo Choi , Keonwoo Kim , Minji Hong , Sehyun Kim

We tackle the challenge of open-vocabulary segmentation, where we need to identify objects from a wide range of categories in different environments, using text prompts as our input. To overcome this challenge, existing methods often use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yu-Jhe Li , Xinyang Zhang , Kun Wan , Lantao Yu , Ajinkya Kale , Xin Lu

We study automatic title generation and present a method for generating domain-controlled titles for scientific articles. A good title allows you to get the attention that your research deserves. A title can be interpreted as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Abdul Waheed , Muskan Goyal , Nimisha Mittal , Deepak Gupta

Proper naming of methods can make program code easier to understand, and thus enhance software maintainability. Yet, developers may use inconsistent names due to poor communication or a lack of familiarity with conventions within the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Kisub Kim , Xin Zhou , Dongsun Kim , Julia Lawall , Kui Liu , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein , Jaekwon Lee , David Lo

Recently, open-domain dialogue systems have attracted growing attention. Most of them use the sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) architecture to generate responses. However, traditional Seq2Seq-based open-domain dialogue models tend to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Heng-Da Xu , Xian-Ling Mao , Zewen Chi , Jing-Jing Zhu , Fanshu Sun , Heyan Huang

Large language models (LLMs) have recently attracted considerable interest for their ability to perform complex reasoning tasks, such as chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. However, most of the existing approaches to enhance this ability rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Xinyi Wang , Lucas Caccia , Oleksiy Ostapenko , Xingdi Yuan , William Yang Wang , Alessandro Sordoni

Automatically generating code from a textual description of method invocation confronts challenges. There were two current research directions for this problem. One direction focuses on considering a textual description of method…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Hung Phan

Keyphrases are capable of providing semantic metadata characterizing documents and producing an overview of the content of a document. Since keyphrase extraction is able to facilitate the management, categorization, and retrieval of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Funan Mu , Zhenting Yu , LiFeng Wang , Yequan Wang , Qingyu Yin , Yibo Sun , Liqun Liu , Teng Ma , Jing Tang , Xing Zhou

Method names play an important role in communicating the purpose and behavior of their functionality. Research has shown that high-quality names significantly improve code comprehension and the overall maintainability of software. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Carol Wong , Gunnar Larsen , Rocky Huang , Bonita Sharif , Anthony Peruma

Automatic API method recommendation is an essential task of code intelligence, which aims to suggest suitable APIs for programming queries. Existing approaches can be categorized into two primary groups: retrieval-based and learning-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yujia Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Muyijie Zhu , Qing Liao , Yong Wang , Guoai Xu

The encoder-decoder model is widely used in natural language generation tasks. However, the model sometimes suffers from repeated redundant generation, misses important phrases, and includes irrelevant entities. Toward solving these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Shun Kiyono , Sho Takase , Jun Suzuki , Naoaki Okazaki , Kentaro Inui , Masaaki Nagata

Requirements traceability is an essential step in ensuring the quality of software during the early stages of its development life cycle. Requirements tracing usually consists of document parsing, candidate link generation and evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Najla Al-Saati , Raghda Abdul-Jaleel

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled users to provide highly specific music recommendation requests using natural language prompts (e.g. "Can you recommend some old classics for slow dancing?"). In this setup, the…

This paper describes the results of a large (+1100 responses) survey of professional software developers concerning standards for naming source code methods. The various standards for source code method names are derived from and supported…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Reem S. AlSuhaibani , Christian D. Newman , Michael J. Decker , Michael L. Collard , Jonathan I. Maletic

Software requirements specification is undoubtedly critical for the whole software life-cycle. Nowadays, writing software requirements specifications primarily depends on human work. Although massive studies have been proposed to fasten the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Ziyan Zhao , Li Zhang , Xiaoyun Gao , Xiaoli Lian , Heyang Lv , Lin Shi

Advertising (ad for short) keyword suggestion is important for sponsored search to improve online advertising and increase search revenue. There are two common challenges in this task. First, the keyword bidding problem: hot ad keywords are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Hao Zhou , Minlie Huang , Yishun Mao , Changlei Zhu , Peng Shu , Xiaoyan Zhu

Statistical language modeling techniques have successfully been applied to source code, yielding a variety of new software development tools, such as tools for code suggestion and improving readability. A major issue with these techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Rafael-Michael Karampatsis , Charles Sutton