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Automatically generating source code from natural language descriptions has been a growing field of research in recent years. However, current large-scale code generation models often encounter difficulties when selecting appropriate APIs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Kechi Zhang , Huangzhao Zhang , Ge Li , Jia Li , Zhuo Li , Zhi Jin

Examples in web API specifications can be essential for API testing, API understanding, and even building chat-bots for APIs. Unfortunately, most API specifications lack human-written examples. This paper introduces a novel technique for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Kush Jain , Kiran Kate , Jason Tsay , Claire Le Goues , Martin Hirzel

Learning to program can be challenging, and providing high-quality and timely support at scale is hard. Generative AI and its products, like ChatGPT, can create a solution for most intro-level programming problems. However, students might…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Xinying Hou , Zihan Wu , Xu Wang , Barbara J. Ericson

Developers prefer to utilize third-party libraries when they implement some functionalities and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are frequently used by them. Facing an unfamiliar API, developers tend to consult tutorials as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-07 He Jiang , Jingxuan Zhang , Xiaochen Li , Zhilei Ren , David Lo

We introduce API Pack, a massive multi-programming language dataset containing over one million instruction-API calls for improving the API call generation capabilities of large language models. Our evaluation highlights three key findings:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Zhen Guo , Adriana Meza Soria , Wei Sun , Yikang Shen , Rameswar Panda

Low-code programming allows citizen developers to create programs with minimal coding effort, typically via visual (e.g. drag-and-drop) interfaces. In parallel, recent AI-powered tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT generate programs from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Nikitha Rao , Jason Tsay , Kiran Kate , Vincent J. Hellendoorn , Martin Hirzel

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in stand-alone code tasks like HumanEval and MBPP, but struggle with handling entire code repositories. This challenge has prompted research on enhancing LLM-codebase interaction at a repository scale.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Xiangyan Liu , Bo Lan , Zhiyuan Hu , Yang Liu , Zhicheng Zhang , Fei Wang , Michael Shieh , Wenmeng Zhou

Computing educators face significant challenges in providing timely support to students, especially in large class settings. Large language models (LLMs) have emerged recently and show great promise for providing on-demand help at a large…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Mark Liffiton , Brad Sheese , Jaromir Savelka , Paul Denny

When learning to use an Application Programming Interface (API), programmers need to understand the inputs and outputs (I/O) of the API functions. Current documentation tools automatically document the static information of I/O, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Siyuan Jiang , Ameer Armaly , Collin McMillan , Qiyu Zhi , Ronald Metoyer

Learning new programming skills requires tailored guidance. With the emergence of advanced Natural Language Generation models like the ChatGPT API, there is now a possibility of creating a convenient and personalized tutoring system with AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Eason Chen , Ray Huang , Han-Shin Chen , Yuen-Hsien Tseng , Liang-Yi Li

Large language models (LLMs), such as Codex and GPT-4, have recently showcased their remarkable code generation abilities, facilitating a significant boost in coding efficiency. This paper will delve into utilizing LLMs for code generation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Daoguang Zan , Bei Chen , Yongshun Gong , Junzhi Cao , Fengji Zhang , Bingchao Wu , Bei Guan , Yilong Yin , Yongji Wang

Large language models (LLMs) like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT have emerged as powerful tools for code generation, significantly enhancing productivity and accelerating software development. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Yixi Wu , Pengfei He , Zehao Wang , Shaowei Wang , Yuan Tian , Tse-Hsun Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for code generation, yet they remain limited in private-library-oriented code generation, where the goal is to generate code using APIs from private libraries. Existing approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yitong Zhang , Chengze Li , Ruize Chen , Guowei Yang , Xiaoran Jia , Yijie Ren , Jia Li

This is the study that presents an AI-Python-based chatbot that helps students to learn programming by demonstrating solutions to such problems as debugging errors, solving syntax problems or converting abstract theoretical concepts to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amiri , Md Mainul Islam

Timely, personalized feedback is essential for students learning programming. LLM-powered tools like ChatGPT offer instant support, but reveal direct answers with code, which may hinder deep conceptual engagement. We developed CodeAid, an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Majeed Kazemitabaar , Runlong Ye , Xiaoning Wang , Austin Z. Henley , Paul Denny , Michelle Craig , Tovi Grossman

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in automating significant aspects of coding by producing natural code from informal natural language (NL) intent. However, given NL is informal, it does not lend easily to checking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Sarah Fakhoury , Aaditya Naik , Georgios Sakkas , Saikat Chakraborty , Shuvendu K. Lahiri

Modern software development requires a large investment in learning application programming interfaces (APIs). Recent research found that the learning materials themselves are often inadequate: developers struggle to find answers beyond…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Adrian Kuhn , Robert DeLine

Context: Developing compilers and static analysis tools ("language tools") is a difficult and time-consuming task. We have previously presented *property probes*, a technique to help the language tool developer build understanding of their…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Anton Risberg Alaküla , Niklas Fors , Emma Söderberg

Software developers study and reuse existing source code to understand how to properly use application programming interfaces (APIs). However, manually finding sufficient and adequate code examples for a given API is a difficult and a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Mohammad Ghafari , Konstantin Rubinov , Mohammad Mehdi Pourhashem K

In today's software world with its cornucopia of reusable software libraries, when a programmer is faced with a programming task that they suspect can be completed through the use of a library, they often look for code examples using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Geert Heyman , Rafael Huysegems , Pascal Justen , Tom Van Cutsem
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