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We present Natural Language Tools (NLT), a framework that replaces programmatic JSON tool calling in large language models (LLMs) with natural language outputs. By decoupling tool selection from response generation, NLT eliminates task…

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Although data visualization is powerful for revealing patterns and communicating insights, creating effective visualizations requires familiarity with authoring tools and often disrupts the analysis flow. While large language models show…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zhihao Shuai , Boyan Li , Siyu Yan , Yuyu Luo , Weikai Yang

While LLMs enable a range of AI applications, interacting with multiple models and customizing workflows can be challenging, and existing LLM interfaces offer limited support for collaborative extension or real-world evaluation. In this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Jaeryang Baek , Ayana Hussain , Danny Liu , Nicholas Vincent , Lawrence H. Kim

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in multimodal understanding, yet their reasoning abilities remain underexplored. Existing benchmarks tend to focus on perception or text-based comprehension,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiang Li , Wenyue Hua , Kaijie Zhu , Lingyao Li , Haoyang Ling , Jinkui Chi , Qi Dou , Jindong Wang , Yongfeng Zhang , Xin Ma , Lizhou Fan

We present VisualHints, a novel environment for multimodal reinforcement learning (RL) involving text-based interactions along with visual hints (obtained from the environment). Real-life problems often demand that agents interact with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Thomas Carta , Subhajit Chaudhury , Kartik Talamadupula , Michiaki Tatsubori

Natural language processing (NLP) aims at investigating the interactions between agents and humans, processing and analyzing large amounts of natural language data. Large-scale language models play an important role in current natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Kebing Jin , Hankz Hankui Zhuo

Programming assistants powered by large language models (LLMs) have become widely available, with conversational assistants like ChatGPT particularly accessible to novice programmers. However, varied tool capabilities and inconsistent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Gabrielle O'Brien , Antonio Pedro Santos Alves , Sebastian Baltes , Grischa Liebel , Mircea Lungu , Marcos Kalinowski

Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have ignited interest in developing effective methods for predicting protein-ligand interactions (PLIs) given their relevance to drug discovery and protein engineering efforts and the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-18 James Michels , Ramya Bandarupalli , Amin Ahangar Akbari , Thai Le , Hong Xiao , Jing Li , Erik F. Y. Hom

We present VOICE, a novel approach to science communication that connects large language models' (LLM) conversational capabilities with interactive exploratory visualization. VOICE introduces several innovative technical contributions that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Donggang Jia , Alexandra Irger , Lonni Besancon , Ondrej Strnad , Deng Luo , Johanna Bjorklund , Anders Ynnerman , Ivan Viola

Building a dialogue system that can communicate naturally with humans is a challenging yet interesting problem of agent-based computing. The rapid growth in this area is usually hindered by the long-standing problem of data scarcity as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Munazza Zaib , Quan Z. Sheng , Wei Emma Zhang

Incorporating natural language input has the potential to improve the capabilities of biomedical data discovery interfaces. However, user interface elements and visualizations are still powerful tools for interacting with data. In our…

Databases for OLTP are often the backbone for applications such as hotel room or cinema ticket booking applications. However, developing a conversational agent (i.e., a chatbot-like interface) to allow end-users to interact with an…

Current vision and language tasks usually take complete visual data (e.g., raw images or videos) as input, however, practical scenarios may often consist the situations where part of the visual information becomes inaccessible due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Ye Zhu , Yu Wu , Yi Yang , Yan Yan

We investigate the use of Natural Language Inference (NLI) in automating requirements engineering tasks. In particular, we focus on three tasks: requirements classification, identification of requirements specification defects, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Mohamad Fazelnia , Viktoria Koscinski , Spencer Herzog , Mehdi Mirakhorli

AI chatbots have made vast strides in technology improvement in recent years and are already operational in many industries. Advanced Natural Language Processing techniques, based on deep networks, efficiently process user requests to carry…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Nathan Dolbir , Triyasha Dastidar , Kaushik Roy

The scale, variety, and quantity of publicly-available NLP datasets has grown rapidly as researchers propose new tasks, larger models, and novel benchmarks. Datasets is a community library for contemporary NLP designed to support this…

As virtual 3D environments become more prevalent, equitable access is essential for blind and low-vision (BLV) users, who face challenges with spatial awareness, navigation, and interaction. Prior work has explored supplementing visual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xinyun Cao , Kexin Phyllis Ju , Chenglin Li , Venkatesh Potluri , Dhruv Jain

With the growing abundance of repositories containing tabular data, discovering relevant tables for in-depth analysis remains a challenging task. Existing table discovery methods primarily retrieve desired tables based on a query table or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Lingxi Cui , Huan Li , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen

Conversational Assistants (CA) are increasingly supporting human workers in knowledge management. Traditionally, CAs respond in specific ways to predefined user intents and conversation patterns. However, this rigidness does not handle the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Samuel Kernan Freire , Chaofan Wang , Evangelos Niforatos

Our goal is to create a convenient natural language interface for performing well-specified but complex actions such as analyzing data, manipulating text, and querying databases. However, existing natural language interfaces for such tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Sida I. Wang , Samuel Ginn , Percy Liang , Christoper D. Manning