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Context: The active involvement of users and customers in agile software development remains a persistent challenge in practice. For this reason, it is important that students in higher education become familiar with good practices in Agile…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Eva-Maria Schön , Michael Neumann , Tiago Silva da Silva

Effective prioritization of issue reports is crucial in software engineering to optimize resource allocation and address critical problems promptly. However, the manual classification of issue reports for prioritization is laborious and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Gabriel Aracena , Kyle Luster , Fabio Santos , Igor Steinmacher , Marco A. Gerosa

This paper evaluates the extent to which current Large Language Models (LLMs) can capture task-oriented multi-party conversations (MPCs). We have recorded and transcribed 29 MPCs between patients, their companions, and a social robot in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Angus Addlesee , Weronika Sieińska , Nancie Gunson , Daniel Hernández Garcia , Christian Dondrup , Oliver Lemon

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly explored for educational tasks such as grading, yet their alignment with human evaluation in real classrooms remains underexamined. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of using an LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Grace Byun , Swati Rajwal , Jinho D. Choi

This paper presents an investigation of the capabilities of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) to auto-generate graphical process models from multi-modal (i.e., text- and image-based) inputs. More precisely, we first introduce a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Marvin Voelter , Raheleh Hadian , Timotheus Kampik , Marius Breitmayer , Manfred Reichert

Large Foundational Language Models are capable of performing many tasks at a high level but are difficult to deploy in many applications because of their size and proprietary ownership. Many will be motivated to distill specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Andrew Brown , Jiading Zhu , Mohamed Abdelwahab , Alec Dong , Cindy Wang , Jonathan Rose

Goal models have been widely used in Computer Science to represent software requirements, business objectives, and design qualities. Existing goal modelling techniques, however, have shown limitations of expressiveness and/or tractability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Chi Mai Nguyen , Roberto Sebastiani , Paolo Giorgini , John Mylopoulos

This paper describes a rapid feasibility study of using GPT-4, a large language model (LLM), to (semi)automate data extraction in systematic reviews. Despite the recent surge of interest in LLMs there is still a lack of understanding of how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Lena Schmidt , Kaitlyn Hair , Sergio Graziosi , Fiona Campbell , Claudia Kapp , Alireza Khanteymoori , Dawn Craig , Mark Engelbert , James Thomas

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI), specifically large language models (LLMs), are increasingly used in software engineering, mainly for coding tasks. However, requirements engineering - particularly requirements validation - has seen…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Adam Trendowicz , Daniel Seifert , Andreas Jedlitschka , Marcus Ciolkowski , Anton Strahilov

Goal-oriented requirements variability modelling has established the understanding for adaptability in the early stage of software development-the Requirements Engineering phase. Goal-oriented requirements variability modelling considers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Khavee Agustus Botangen , Jian Yu , Sira Yongchareon , LiangHuai Yang , Quan Bai

The text generated by large language models is commonly controlled by prompting, where a prompt prepended to a user's query guides the model's output. The prompts used by companies to guide their models are often treated as secrets, to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yiming Zhang , Nicholas Carlini , Daphne Ippolito

One-on-one tutoring is widely acknowledged as an effective instructional method, conditioned on qualified tutors. However, the high demand for qualified tutors remains a challenge, often necessitating the training of novice tutors (i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Jionghao Lin , Zifei Han , Danielle R. Thomas , Ashish Gurung , Shivang Gupta , Vincent Aleven , Kenneth R. Koedinger

Requirements Elicitation (RE) is a crucial software engineering skill that involves interviewing a client and then devising a software design based on the interview results. Teaching this inherently experiential skill effectively has high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Nelson Lojo , Rafael González , Rohan Philip , José Antonio Parejo , Amador Durán Toro , Armando Fox , Pablo Fernández

In the ever-evolving landscape of software engineering, the emergence of large language models (LLMs) and conversational interfaces, exemplified by ChatGPT, is nothing short of revolutionary. While their potential is undeniable across…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mithila Sivakumar , Alvine Boaye Belle , Jinjun Shan , Kimya Khakzad Shahandashti

The rapid advancements in Generative AI (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, are transforming software engineering by automating code generation tasks. While these tools improve developer productivity, they also present…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Alyssia Chen , Timothy Huo , Yunhee Nam , Dan Port , Anthony Peruma

The integration of generative AI into developer forums like Stack Overflow presents an opportunity to enhance problem-solving by allowing users to post screenshots of code or Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) instead of traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Faiz Ahmed , Xuchen Tan , Folajinmi Adewole , Suprakash Datta , Maleknaz Nayebi

Language model pretraining generally targets a broad range of use cases and incorporates data from diverse sources. However, there are instances where we desire a model that excels in specific areas without markedly compromising performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ernie Chang , Pin-Jie Lin , Yang Li , Changsheng Zhao , Daeil Kim , Rastislav Rabatin , Zechun Liu , Yangyang Shi , Vikas Chandra

Empirical software engineering research on production systems has brought forth a better understanding of the software engineering process for practitioners and researchers alike. However, only a small subset of production systems is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jenny T. Liang , Carmen Badea , Christian Bird , Robert DeLine , Denae Ford , Nicole Forsgren , Thomas Zimmermann

Recent advances in Natural Language Processing, and in particular on the construction of very large pre-trained language representation models, is opening up new perspectives on the construction of conversational information seeking (CIS)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Patrizio Bellan , Mauro Dragoni , Chiara Ghidini

ChatGPT has achieved remarkable success in natural language understanding. Considering that recommendation is indeed a conversation between users and the system with items as words, which has similar underlying pattern with ChatGPT, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yabin Zhang , Wenhui Yu , Erhan Zhang , Xu Chen , Lantao Hu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai