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Compiler error messages serve as an initial resource for programmers dealing with compilation errors. However, previous studies indicate that they often lack sufficient targeted information to resolve code issues. Consequently, programmers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Patricia Widjojo , Christoph Treude

Stack Overflow has been heavily used by software developers to seek programming-related information. More and more developers use Community Question and Answer forums, such as Stack Overflow, to search for code examples of how to accomplish…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zhipeng Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy , Xindong Zhang , Zhenchang Xing

Inline comments in the source code facilitate easy comprehension, reusability, and enhanced readability. However, code snippets in answers on Q&A sites like Stack Overflow (SO) often lack comments because answerers volunteer their time and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Suborno Deb Bappon , Saikat Mondal , Banani Roy

Software developers often submit questions to technical Q&A sites like Stack Overflow (SO) to resolve code-level problems. In practice, they include example code snippets with questions to explain the programming issues. Existing research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Saikat Mondal , Banani Roy

As a popular Q&A site for programming, Stack Overflow is a treasure for developers. However, the amount of questions and answers on Stack Overflow make it difficult for developers to efficiently locate the information they are looking for.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Kaibo Cao , Chunyang Chen , Sebastian Baltes , Christoph Treude , Xiang Chen

Software developers often resort to Stack Overflow (SO) to fill their programming needs. Given the abundance of relevant posts, navigating them and comparing different solutions is tedious and time-consuming. Recent work has proposed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Bonan Kou , Muhao Chen , Tianyi Zhang

With the rise of the pull request mechanism in software development, the quality of pull requests has gained more attention. Prior works focus on improving the quality of pull request descriptions and several approaches have been proposed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ting Zhang , Ferdian Thung , David Lo , Lingxiao Jiang

In the rapidly evolving landscape of developer communities, Q&A platforms serve as crucial resources for crowdsourcing developers' knowledge. A notable trend is the increasing use of images to convey complex queries more effectively.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Faiz Ahmed , Suprakash Datta , Maleknaz Nayebi

Topic modeling is a widely used technique for revealing underlying thematic structures within textual data. However, existing models have certain limitations, particularly when dealing with short text datasets that lack co-occurring words.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Han Wang , Nirmalendu Prakash , Nguyen Khoi Hoang , Ming Shan Hee , Usman Naseem , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Prompt engineering is crucial for achieving reliable and effective outputs from large language models (LLMs), but its design requires specialized knowledge of prompting techniques and a deep understanding of target tasks. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yohei Ikenoue , Hitomi Tashiro , Shigeru Kuroyanagi

A great video title describes the most salient event compactly and captures the viewer's attention. In contrast, video captioning tends to generate sentences that describe the video as a whole. Although generating a video title…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Kuo-Hao Zeng , Tseng-Hung Chen , Juan Carlos Niebles , Min Sun

Multimedia online platforms (e.g., Amazon, TikTok) have greatly benefited from the incorporation of multimedia (e.g., visual, textual, and acoustic) content into their personal recommender systems. These modalities provide intuitive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Wei Wei , Jiabin Tang , Yangqin Jiang , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

Domain-specific community question answering is becoming an integral part of professions. Finding related questions and answers in these communities can significantly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of information seeking. Stack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Amirreza Shirani , Bowen Xu , David Lo , Thamar Solorio , Amin Alipour

Context: Software developers often ask questions on Technical Q&A forums like Stack Overflow (SO) to seek solutions to their programming-related problems (e.g., errors and unexpected behavior of code). Problem: Many questions miss required…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Saikat Mondal , Chanchal K. Roy

Despite the increase in popularity of language models for code generation, it is still unknown how training on bimodal coding forums affects a model's code generation performance and reliability. We, therefore, collect a dataset of over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Gabriel Orlanski , Seonhye Yang , Michael Healy

Software repositories contain large amounts of textual data, ranging from source code comments and issue descriptions to questions, answers, and comments on Stack Overflow. To make sense of this textual data, topic modelling is frequently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Christoph Treude , Markus Wagner

With the success of large language models (LLMs) of code and their use as code assistants (e.g. Codex used in GitHub Copilot), techniques for introducing domain-specific knowledge in the prompt design process become important. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Disha Shrivastava , Hugo Larochelle , Daniel Tarlow

Stack Overflow is one of the most popular Programming Community-based Question Answering (PCQA) websites that has attracted more and more users in recent years. When users raise or inquire questions in Stack Overflow, providing related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Jiayan Pei , Yimin Wu , Zishan Qin , Yao Cong , Jingtao Guan

Answering a programming question using only its title is difficult as salient contextual information is omitted. Based on this observation, we present a corpus of over 40,000 StackOverflow question texts to be used in conjunction with their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Gabriel Orlanski , Alex Gittens

The rapid development of the Internet has profoundly changed human life. Humans are increasingly expressing themselves and interacting with others on social media platforms. However, although artificial intelligence technology has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Haochen Xue , Chong Zhang , Chengzhi Liu , Fangyu Wu , Xiaobo Jin