English
Related papers

Related papers: Dialogue Management for Interactive API Search

200 papers

AI-generated content has progressed from monolithic models to modular workflows, especially on platforms like ComfyUI, allowing users to customize complex creative pipelines. However, the large number of components in ComfyUI and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jinwei Su , Qizhen Lan , Zeyu Wang , Yinghui Xia , Hairu Wen , Yiqun Duan , Xi Xiao , Tianyu Shi , Yang Jingsong , Lewei He

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 experience and adoption of conversational search is tied to the accuracy and completeness of users' mental models -- their internal frameworks for understanding and predicting system behaviour. Thus, understanding these models can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chadha Degachi , Samuel Kernan Freire , Evangelos Niforatos , Gerd Kortuem

Conversational search has seen increased recent attention in both the IR and NLP communities. It seeks to clarify and solve users' search needs through multi-turn natural language interactions. However, most existing systems are trained and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Zhenduo Wang , Zhichao Xu , Qingyao Ai , Vivek Srikumar

Understanding the dynamics of human-AI interaction in question answering is crucial for enhancing collaborative efficiency. Extending from our initial formative study, which revealed challenges in human utilization of conversational AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jaeyoon Song , Zahra Ashktorab , Qian Pan , Casey Dugan , Werner Geyer , Thomas W. Malone

APIs are everywhere; they provide access to automation solutions that could help businesses automate some of their tasks. Unfortunately, they may not be accessible to the business users who need them but are not equipped with the necessary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Siyu Huo , Kushal Mukherjee , Jayachandu Bandlamudi , Vatche Isahagian , Vinod Muthusamy , Yara Rizk

The growing demand for software developers and the increasing development complexity have emphasized the need for support in software engineering projects. This is especially relevant in light of advancements in artificial intelligence,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Glaucia Melo

Enhancing user engagement through interactions plays an essential role in socially-driven dialogues. While prior works have optimized models to reason over relevant knowledge or plan a dialogue act flow, the relationship between user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Jiashuo Wang , Kaitao Song , Chunpu Xu , Changhe Song , Yang Xiao , Dongsheng Li , Lili Qiu , Wenjie Li

API-driven chatbot systems are increasingly integral to software engineering applications, yet their effectiveness hinges on accurately generating and executing API calls. This is particularly challenging in scenarios requiring multi-step…

Robots navigating in human environments should use language to ask for assistance and be able to understand human responses. To study this challenge, we introduce Cooperative Vision-and-Dialog Navigation, a dataset of over 2k embodied,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Jesse Thomason , Michael Murray , Maya Cakmak , Luke Zettlemoyer

Data users need relevant context and research expertise to effectively search for and identify relevant datasets. Leading data providers, such as the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), offer standardized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Lizhou Fan , Sara Lafia , Lingyao Li , Fangyuan Yang , Libby Hemphill

The greatest challenges in building sophisticated open-domain conversational agents arise directly from the potential for ongoing mixed-initiative multi-turn dialogues, which do not follow a particular plan or pursue a particular fixed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Kevin K. Bowden , Shereen Oraby , Jiaqi Wu , Amita Misra , Marilyn Walker

Traditionally, software APIs (application programming interfaces) have been viewed from a technical perspective, as a means to separate implementation from functional calls, and as a way to define a contract of software functionality. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jennifer Horkoff , Juho Lindman , Imed Hammouda , Eric Knauss

Using APIs to develop software applications is the norm. APIs help developers to build applications faster as they do not need to reinvent the wheel. It is therefore important for developers to understand the APIs that they plan to use.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Ferdian Thung , Kisub Kim , Ting Zhang , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ratnadira Widyasari , Zhou Yang , David Lo

Tracing the sequence of library and system calls that a program makes is very helpful in the characterization of its interactions with the surrounding environment and ultimately of its semantics. Due to entanglements of real-world software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Daniele Cono D'Elia , Simone Nicchi , Matteo Mariani , Matteo Marini , Federico Palmaro

With the widespread use and adoption of mobile platforms like Android a new software quality concern has emerged -- energy consumption. However, developing energy-efficient software and applications requires knowledge and likewise proper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Andreas Schuler , Gabriele Kotsis

Specifying and implementing flexible human-computer dialogs, such as those used in kiosks and smart phone apps, is challenging because of the numerous and varied directions in which each user might steer a dialog. The objective of this…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Saverio Perugini

There has been growing interest in using neural networks and deep learning techniques to create dialogue systems. Conversational recommendation is an interesting setting for the scientific exploration of dialogue with natural language as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Raymond Li , Samira Kahou , Hannes Schulz , Vincent Michalski , Laurent Charlin , Chris Pal

Spoken dialogue systems have transformed human-machine interaction by providing real-time responses to queries. However, misunderstandings between the user and system persist. This study explores the significance of interactional language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Matthew Galbraith

In this paper, we address the problem of answering complex information needs by conversing conversations with search engines, in the sense that users can express their queries in natural language, and directly receivethe information they…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Evangelos Kanoulas , Christof Monz , Maarten de Rijke