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Software technologies are used by programmers with diverse backgrounds. To fulfill programmers' need for information, enthusiasts contribute numerous learning resources that vary in style and content, which act as documentation for the…

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Generative AI plays an increasing role during software engineering activities to make them, e.g., more efficient or provide better quality. However, it is often unclear how much benefit LLMs really provide. We concentrate on software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Frank Elberzhager , Matthias Gerbershagen , Joshua Ginkel

The availability of open-source projects facilitates developers to contribute and collaborate on a wide range of projects. As a result, the developer community contributing to such open-source projects is also increasing. Many of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Sridhar Chimalakonda

Document layout analysis usually relies on computer vision models to understand documents while ignoring textual information that is vital to capture. Meanwhile, high quality labeled datasets with both visual and textual information are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Minghao Li , Yiheng Xu , Lei Cui , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei , Zhoujun Li , Ming Zhou

Software documentation is crucial for repository comprehension. While Large Language Models (LLMs) advance documentation generation from code snippets to entire repositories, existing benchmarks have two key limitations: (1) they lack a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xinchen Wang , Ruida Hu , Cuiyun Gao , Pengfei Gao , Chao Peng

Effective document intelligence models rely on large amounts of annotated training data. However, procuring sufficient and high-quality data poses significant challenges due to the labor-intensive and costly nature of data acquisition.…

Automated documentation of programming source code and automated code generation from natural language are challenging tasks of both practical and scientific interest. Progress in these areas has been limited by the low availability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone , Rico Sennrich

Medical text generation aims to assist with administrative work and highlight salient information to support decision-making. To reflect the specific requirements of medical text, in this paper, we propose a set of metrics to evaluate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yiqing Xie , Sheng Zhang , Hao Cheng , Pengfei Liu , Zelalem Gero , Cliff Wong , Tristan Naumann , Hoifung Poon , Carolyn Rose

In recent years, many software engineering researchers have begun to include artifacts alongside their research papers. Ideally, artifacts, including tools, benchmarks, and data, support the dissemination of ideas, provide evidence for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Christopher S. Timperley , Lauren Herckis , Claire Le Goues , Michael Hilton

Creating new documents by synthesizing information from existing sources is an important part of knowledge work in many domains. This process often involves gathering content from multiple documents, organizing it, and then transforming it…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with code generation tasks involving niche software libraries. Existing code generation techniques with only human-oriented documentation can fail -- even when the LLM has access to web search and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Sandya Wijaya , Jacob Bolano , Alejandro Gomez Soteres , Shriyanshu Kode , Yue Huang , Anant Sahai

Document AI has advanced rapidly and is attracting increasing attention. Yet, while most efforts have focused on document layout analysis (DLA), its generative counterpart, layout generation, remains underexplored. Distinct from traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hengrui Kang , Zhuangcheng Gu , Zhiyuan Zhao , Zichen Wen , Bin Wang , Weijia Li , Conghui He

Generating and maintaining API documentation with integrity and consistency can be time-consuming and expensive for evolving APIs. To solve this problem, several approaches have been proposed to automatically generate high-quality API…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Shujun Wang , Yongqiang Tian , Dengcheng He

Recent developments show that Large Language Models (LLMs) produce state-of-the-art performance on natural language (NL) to code generation for resource-rich general-purpose languages like C++, Java, and Python. However, their practical…

Almost no modern software system is written from scratch, and developers are required to effectively learn to use third-party libraries or software services. Thus, many practitioners and researchers have looked for ways to create effective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Daye Nam , Andrew Macvean , Brad Myers , Bogdan Vasilescu

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 advent of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has unlocked the potential for end-to-end document parsing and translation. However, prevailing benchmarks such as OmniDocBench and DITrans are dominated by pristine scanned or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yongkun Du , Pinxuan Chen , Xuye Ying , Zhineng Chen

Code-documentation inconsistencies are common and undesirable: they can lead to developer misunderstandings and software defects. This paper introduces DocPrism, a multi-language, code-documentation inconsistency detection tool. DocPrism…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiaomeng Xu , Zahin Wahab , Reid Holmes , Caroline Lemieux

As AI models and services are used in a growing number of highstakes areas, a consensus is forming around the need for a clearer record of how these models and services are developed to increase trust. Several proposals for higher quality…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-30 John Richards , David Piorkowski , Michael Hind , Stephanie Houde , Aleksandra Mojsilović

Docker, the industry standard for packaging and deploying applications, leverages Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to facilitate the creation of images through Dockerfiles. However, maintaining Dockerfiles presents significant…

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