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There are two kinds of systems that programming language researchers use for their work. Semantics engineering tools let them interactively explore their definitions, while proof assistants can be used to check the proofs of their…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jan Liam Verter , Tomas Petricek

Collecting high quality conversational data can be very expensive for most applications and infeasible for others due to privacy, ethical, or similar concerns. A promising direction to tackle this problem is to generate synthetic dialogues…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Maximillian Chen , Alexandros Papangelis , Chenyang Tao , Seokhwan Kim , Andy Rosenbaum , Yang Liu , Zhou Yu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

The rise of capabilities expressed by large language models has been quickly followed by the integration of the same complex systems into application level logic. Algorithms, programs, systems, and companies are built around structured…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Kaiser Pister , Dhruba Jyoti Paul , Patrick Brophy , Ishan Joshi

Conversational agents or chatbots are widely investigated and used across different fields including healthcare, education, and marketing. Still, the development of chatbots for assisting secure coding practices is in its infancy. In this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Catherine Tony , Mohana Balasubramanian , Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra , Riccardo Scandariato

The field of prompt engineering is becoming an essential phenomenon in artificial intelligence. It is altering how data scientists interact with large language models (LLMs) for analytics applications. This research paper shares empirical…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Snehasish Paul , Rohit Kumar , Laxman Das

Software Development (SD) is remarkably dynamic and is critically dependent on the knowledge acquired by the project's software developers as the project progresses. Software developers need to understand large amounts of information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Glaucia Melo , Luis Fernando Lins , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan

IDE-integrated AI coding assistants, which operate conversationally within developers' working codebases with access to project context and multi-file editing, are rapidly reshaping software development. However, empirical investigation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ningzhi Tang , Chaoran Chen , Zihan Fang , Gelei Xu , Maria Dhakal , Yiyu Shi , Collin McMillan , Yu Huang , Toby Jia-Jun Li

Newcomers onboarding to Open Source Software (OSS) projects face many challenges. Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, have emerged as potential resources for answering questions and providing guidance, with many developers now…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Italo Santos , Katia Romero Felizardo , Igor Steinmacher , Marco A. Gerosa

To combat climate change, individuals are encouraged to adopt sustainable habits, in particular, with their household, optimizing their electrical consumption. Conversational agents, such as Smart Home Assistants, hold promise as effective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Mathyas Giudici , Alessandro Sironi , Ismaele Villa , Samuele Scherini , Franca Garzotto

Several approaches have been presented, which aim to extract models from natural language specifications. These approaches have inherent weaknesses for they assume an initial problem understanding that is perfect, and they leave no room for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Vasiliy Seibert

The dream of achieving a student-teacher ratio of 1:1 is closer than ever thanks to the emergence of large language models (LLMs). One potential application of these models in the educational field would be to provide feedback to students…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Marc Ballestero-Ribó , Daniel Ortiz-Martínez

The rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have greatly expanded the potential for automated code-related tasks. Two primary methodologies are used in this domain: prompt engineering and fine-tuning. Prompt engineering involves…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jiho Shin , Clark Tang , Tahmineh Mohati , Maleknaz Nayebi , Song Wang , Hadi Hemmati

Conversational artificial intelligence can already independently engage in brief conversations with clients with psychological problems and provide evidence-based psychological interventions. The main objective of this study is to improve…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-21 H. Zhang , Z. Qiao , H. Wang , B. Duan , J. Yin

The revolutionary potential of automatic code generation tools based on Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) frameworks has yet to be realized. Beyond their ability to help software professionals write more accurate, reusable code, they could…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ilham Qasse , Shailesh Mishra , Mohammad Hamdaqa

Effective prompt engineering is critical to realizing the promised productivity gains of large language models (LLMs) in knowledge-intensive tasks. Yet, many users struggle to craft prompts that yield high-quality outputs, limiting the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Niklas Gutheil , Valentin Mayer , Leopold Müller , Jörg Rommelt , Niklas Kühl

The widespread availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) within Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) has led to their speedy adoption. Conversational interactions with LLMs enable programmers to obtain natural language explanations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Bhavya Chopra , Yasharth Bajpai , Param Biyani , Gustavo Soares , Arjun Radhakrishna , Chris Parnin , Sumit Gulwani

In recent years, prompting has quickly become one of the standard ways of steering the outputs of generative machine learning models, due to its intuitive use of natural language. In this work, we propose a system conditioned on embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Thomas Bott , Florian Lux , Ngoc Thang Vu

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), intelligent conversational assistants have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains. However, they still mainly rely on explicit textual input and do not know…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Ziyan Zhang , Nan Gao , Zhiqiang Nie , Shantanu Pal , Haining Zhang

Chatbots are intelligent conversational computer systems designed to mimic human conversation to enable automated online guidance and support. The increased benefits of chatbots led to their wide adoption by many industries in order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Guendalina Caldarini , Sardar Jaf , Kenneth McGarry

Large language model (LLM) applications, such as ChatGPT, are a powerful tool for online information-seeking (IS) and problem-solving tasks. However, users still face challenges initializing and refining prompts, and their cognitive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Ben Wang , Jiqun Liu , Jamshed Karimnazarov , Nicolas Thompson