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OpenAPI indicates a behavior where producers offer Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to help end-users access their data, resources, and services. Generally, API has many parameters that need to be entered. However, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Shujun Wang , Yongqiang Tian , Dengcheng He

The number of documents available into Internet moves each day up. For this reason, processing this amount of information effectively and expressibly becomes a major concern for companies and scientists. Methods that represent a textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Mohamed Morchid , Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno , Richard Dufour , Javier Ramírez-Rodríguez , Georges Linarès

AI models and services are used in a growing number of highstakes areas, resulting in a need for increased transparency. Consistent with this, several proposals for higher quality and more consistent documentation of AI data, models, and…

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are essential tools for social work researchers aiming to harness advanced technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI services. This paper demystifies APIs and illustrates how they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Brian E. Perron , Hui Luan , Zia Qi , Bryan G. Victor , Kavin Goyal

Developers increasingly rely on text matching tools to analyze the relation between natural language words and APIs. However, semantic gaps, namely textual mismatches between words and APIs, negatively affect these tools. Previous studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Xiaochen Li , He Jiang , Yasutaka Kamei , Xin Chen

Online technical forums (e.g., StackOverflow) are popular platforms for developers to discuss technical problems such as how to use specific Application Programming Interface (API), how to solve the programming tasks, or how to fix bugs in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Yintong Huo , Yuxin Su , Hongming Zhang , Michael R. Lyu

Digital tool-based agents, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), that invoke external Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) often rely on documentation to understand API functionality. However, such documentation is frequently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Bhrij Patel , Ashish Jagmohan , Aditya Vempaty

In the digital era, the widespread use of APIs is evident. However, scalable utilization of APIs poses a challenge due to structure divergence observed in online API documentation. This underscores the need for automatic tools to facilitate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Koren Lazar , Matan Vetzler , Guy Uziel , David Boaz , Esther Goldbraich , David Amid , Ateret Anaby-Tavor

Topic models can be useful tools to discover latent topics in collections of documents. Recent studies have shown the feasibility of approach topic modeling as a clustering task. We present BERTopic, a topic model that extends this process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Maarten Grootendorst

Automatic documentation generation tools, or auto docs, are widely used to visualize information about APIs. However, each auto doc tool comes with its own unique representation of API information. In this paper, I use an information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Will Crichton

The world is facing a multitude of challenges that hinder the development of human civilization and the well-being of humanity on the planet. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were formulated by the United Nations in 2015 to address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Francesco Invernici , Francesca Curati , Jelena Jakimov , Amirhossein Samavi , Anna Bernasconi

Using cloud-based computer vision services is gaining traction, where developers access AI-powered components through familiar RESTful APIs, not needing to orchestrate large training and inference infrastructures or curate/label training…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Alex Cummaudo , Rajesh Vasa , John Grundy , Mohamed Abdelrazek

Most application development happens in the context of complex APIs; reference documentation for APIs has grown tremendously in variety, complexity, and volume, and can be difficult to navigate. There is a growing need to develop…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Niraj Kumar , Premkumar Devanbu

Nowadays, it has become a basic need to reuse existing Application Programming Interface (API), Class Libraries, and frameworks for rapid software development. Software developers often reuse this by calling the respective APIs or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Ziaur Rahman

Modern software systems heavily rely on various libraries, which require understanding the API semantics in static analysis. However, summarizing API semantics remains challenging due to complex implementations or unavailable library code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Maryam Masoudian , Anshunkang Zhou , Chengpeng Wang , Charles Zhang

Modern software development requires developers to find and effectively utilize new APIs and their documentation, but documentation has many well-known issues. Despite this, developers eventually overcome these issues but have no way of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Amber Horvath , Michael Xieyang Liu , River Hendriksen , Connor Shannon , Emma Paterson , Kazi Jawad , Andrew Macvean , Brad A. Myers

Automatic Web service composition is a research direction aimed to improve the process of aggregating multiple Web services to create some new, specific functionality. The use of semantics is required as the proper semantic model with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Andrei Netedu , Sabin C. Buraga , Paul Diac , Liana Ţucăr

Automated text generation requires a underlying knowledge base from which to generate, which is often difficult to produce. Software documentation is one domain in which parts of this knowledge base may be derived automatically. In this…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Cecile Paris , Keith Vander Linden

The proliferation of Large Language Models like ChatGPT has significantly advanced language understanding and generation, impacting a broad spectrum of applications. However, these models predominantly excel in text-based tasks, overlooking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xiao Liu , Jianfeng Lin , Jiawei Zhang

Extracting coherent and human-understandable themes from large collections of unstructured historical newspaper archives presents significant challenges due to topic evolution, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) noise, and the sheer volume…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Keerthana Murugaraj , Salima Lamsiyah , Marten During , Martin Theobald