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Code generation, defined as automatically writing a piece of code to solve a given problem for which an evaluation function exists, is a classic hard AI problem. Its general form, writing code using a general language used by human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jacques Basaldúa

Robots operating in human spaces must be able to engage in natural language interaction with people, both understanding and executing instructions, and using conversation to resolve ambiguity and recover from mistakes. To study this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Aishwarya Padmakumar , Jesse Thomason , Ayush Shrivastava , Patrick Lange , Anjali Narayan-Chen , Spandana Gella , Robinson Piramuthu , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

As modern deep networks become more complex, and get closer to human-like capabilities in certain domains, the question arises of how the representations and decision rules they learn compare to the ones in humans. In this work, we study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Ishita Dasgupta , Demi Guo , Samuel J. Gershman , Noah D. Goodman

Solving complex real-world tasks requires cycles of actions and observations. This is particularly true in science, where tasks require many cycles of analysis, tool use, and experimentation. Language agents are promising for automating…

Natural language communication is an intricate and complex process. The speaker usually begins with an intention and motivation of what is to be communicated, and what effects are expected from the communication, while taking into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Seng-Beng Ho , Zhaoxia Wang , Boon-Kiat Quek , Erik Cambria

Introductory programming courses often emphasize mastering syntax and basic constructs before progressing to more complex and interesting programs. This bottom-up approach can be frustrating for novices, shifting the focus away from problem…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Chris Kerslake , Paul Denny , David H Smith , James Prather , Juho Leinonen , Andrew Luxton-Reilly , Stephen MacNeil

Analogical reasoning is a key driver of human generalization in problem-solving and argumentation. Yet, analogies between narrative structures remain challenging for machines. Cognitive engines for structural mapping are not directly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mohammadhossein Khojasteh , Yifan Jiang , Stefano De Giorgis , Frank van Harmelen , Filip Ilievski

When automatically generating programming exercise tasks one often also needs to automatically generate programs. At the very least when providing sample solutions is part of automated feedback. But programs can also be used as part of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Oliver Westphal

This study introduces Conversation Routines (CR), a structured prompt engineering framework for developing task-oriented dialog systems using Large Language Models (LLMs). While LLMs demonstrate remarkable natural language understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Giorgio Robino

Automating the translation of natural-language specifications into logic programs is a challenging task that affects neurosymbolic engineering. We present ASP-Bench, a benchmark comprising 128 natural language problem instances, 64 base…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Stefan Szeider

Argumentation is a very active research field of Artificial Intelligence concerned with the representation and evaluation of arguments used in dialogues between humans and/or artificial agents. Acceptability semantics of formal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zlatina Mileva , Antonis Bikakis , Fabio Aurelio D'Asaro , Mark Law , Alessandra Russo

Natural language is an effective tool for communication, as information can be expressed in different ways and at different levels of complexity. Verbal commands, utilized for instructing robot tasks, can therefor replace traditional robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 P. Telkes , A. Angleraud , R. Pieters

Large Language Models have shown tremendous performance on a large variety of natural language processing tasks, ranging from text comprehension to common sense reasoning. However, the mechanisms responsible for this success remain opaque,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Gaël Gendron , Qiming Bao , Michael Witbrock , Gillian Dobbie

In recent years, autonomous agents have surged in real-world environments such as our homes, offices, and public spaces. However, natural human-robot interaction remains a key challenge. In this paper, we introduce an approach that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Linus Nwankwo , Elmar Rueckert

As a core cognitive skill that enables the transferability of information across domains, analogical reasoning has been extensively studied for both humans and computational models. However, while cognitive theories of analogy often focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Zhivar Sourati , Filip Ilievski , Pia Sommerauer , Yifan Jiang

In the artificial intelligence area, one of the ultimate goals is to make computers understand human language and offer assistance. In order to achieve this ideal, researchers of computer science have put forward a lot of models and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Mengyun Cao , Jiao Tian , Dezhi Cheng , Jin Liu , Xiaoping Sun

Natural language programming is a promising approach to enable end users to instruct new tasks for intelligent agents. However, our formative study found that end users would often use unclear, ambiguous or vague concepts when naturally…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Toby Jia-Jun Li , Marissa Radensky , Justin Jia , Kirielle Singarajah , Tom M. Mitchell , Brad A. Myers

Natural language generation (NLG) systems are computer software systems that produce texts in English and other human languages, often from non-linguistic input data. NLG systems, like most AI systems, need substantial amounts of knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-06-28 E. Reiter , R. Robertson , S. G. Sripada

It is common practice in reinforcement learning (RL) research to train and deploy agents in bespoke simulators, typically implemented by engineers directly in general-purpose programming languages or hardware acceleration frameworks such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dennis J. N. J. Soemers , Spyridon Samothrakis , Kurt Driessens , Mark H. M. Winands

Natural language serves as the primary mode of communication when an intelligent agent with a physical presence engages with human beings. While a plethora of research focuses on natural language understanding (NLU), encompassing endeavors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Chayan Sarkar , Avik Mitra , Pradip Pramanick , Tapas Nayak