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An advantage of scientific workflow systems is their ability to collect runtime provenance information as an execution trace. Traces include the computation steps invoked as part of the workflow run along with the corresponding data…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Shawn Bowers , Timothy McPhillips , Bertram Ludäscher

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in empirical software engineering (ESE) to automate or assist annotation tasks such as labeling commits, issues, and qualitative artifacts. Yet the reliability and reproducibility of such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mia Mohammad Imran , Tarannum Shaila Zaman

Python's dynamic type system, while offering significant flexibility and expressiveness, poses substantial challenges for static analysis and automated tooling, particularly in unannotated or partially annotated codebases. Existing type…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ali Aman , Muhammad Asaduzzaman , Shaowei Wang

The NLP community has long advocated for the construction of multi-annotator datasets to better capture the nuances of language interpretation, subjectivity, and ambiguity. This paper conducts a retrospective study to show how performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pritam Kadasi , Mayank Singh

We present a lightweight annotation tool, the Data AnnotatoR Tool (DART), for the general task of labeling structured data with textual descriptions. The tool is implemented as an interactive application that reduces human efforts in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Ernie Chang , Jeriah Caplinger , Alex Marin , Xiaoyu Shen , Vera Demberg

Motivation: Protein function prediction is a challenging task and an open problem in computational biology. The Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotation (CAFA) is a triennial, community-driven initiative that provides an…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-23 An Phan , Yanli Wang , Frimpong Boadu , Maxat Kulmanov , Robert Hoehndorf , Jianlin Cheng , Predrag Radivojac , Iddo Friedberg

Dialogue systems have the potential to change how people interact with machines but are highly dependent on the quality of the data used to train them. It is therefore important to develop good dialogue annotation tools which can improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Edward Collins , Nikolai Rozanov , Bingbing Zhang

When constructing models that learn from noisy labels produced by multiple annotators, it is important to accurately estimate the reliability of annotators. Annotators may provide labels of inconsistent quality due to their varying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Maolin Li , Arvid Fahlström Myrman , Tingting Mu , Sophia Ananiadou

The performance of current supervised AI systems is tightly connected to the availability of annotated datasets. Annotations are usually collected through annotation tools, which are often designed for specific tasks and are difficult to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Naihao Deng , Yikai Liu , Mingye Chen , Winston Wu , Siyang Liu , Yulong Chen , Yue Zhang , Rada Mihalcea

In subjective NLP tasks, where a single ground truth does not exist, the inclusion of diverse annotators becomes crucial as their unique perspectives significantly influence the annotations. In realistic scenarios, the annotation budget…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Preni Golazizian , Alireza S. Ziabari , Ali Omrani , Morteza Dehghani

Annotation studies often require annotators to familiarize themselves with the task, its annotation scheme, and the data domain. This can be overwhelming in the beginning, mentally taxing, and induce errors into the resulting annotations;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Ji-Ung Lee , Jan-Christoph Klie , Iryna Gurevych

Active learning, a label-efficient paradigm, empowers models to interactively query an oracle for labeling new data. In the realm of LiDAR semantic segmentation, the challenges stem from the sheer volume of point clouds, rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Binhui Xie , Shuang Li , Qingju Guo , Chi Harold Liu , Xinjing Cheng

Argumentation Mining addresses the challenging tasks of identifying boundaries of argumentative text fragments and extracting their relationships. Fully automated solutions do not reach satisfactory accuracy due to their insufficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Fabian Sperrle , Rita Sevastjanova , Rebecca Kehlbeck , Mennatallah El-Assady

Pairwise preferences over model responses are widely collected to evaluate and provide feedback to large language models (LLMs). Given two alternative model responses to the same input, a human or AI annotator selects the "better" response.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Arduin Findeis , Floris Weers , Guoli Yin , Ke Ye , Ruoming Pang , Tom Gunter

Recent advancements in machine learning and adaptive cognitive systems are driving a growing demand for large and richly annotated multimodal data. A prominent example of this trend are fusion models, which increasingly incorporate multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Moritz Meier , Dennis Küster , Tanja Schultz

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

This work presents the system ANITA (Analytic Tableau Proof Assistant) developed for teaching analytic tableaux to computer science students. The tool is written in Python and can be used as a desktop application, or in a web platform. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Davi Romero Vasconcelos

An increasing number of scientific publications are created in open and transparent peer review models: a submission is published first, and then reviewers are invited, or a submission is reviewed in a closed environment but then these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Afshin Sadeghi , Sarven Capadisli , Johannes Wilm , Christoph Lange , Philipp Mayr

Preference optimization is a standard approach to fine-tuning large language models to align with human preferences. The quantity, diversity, and representativeness of the preference dataset are critical to the effectiveness of preference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yuu Jinnai , Ukyo Honda

Stuttering is a complex disorder that requires specialized expertise for effective assessment and treatment. This paper presents an effort to enhance the FluencyBank dataset with a new stuttering annotation scheme based on established…