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Natural language programming is a promising approach to enable end users to instruct new tasks for intelligent agents. However, our formative study found that end users would often use unclear, ambiguous or vague concepts when naturally…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Toby Jia-Jun Li , Marissa Radensky , Justin Jia , Kirielle Singarajah , Tom M. Mitchell , Brad A. Myers

Industrial designers have long sought a natural and intuitive way to achieve the targeted control of prototype models -- using simple natural language instructions to configure and adjust the models seamlessly according to their intentions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yu-Zhe Shi , Mingchen Liu , Hanlu Ma , Qiao Xu , Huamin Qu , Kun He , Lecheng Ruan , Qining Wang

Controlled text generation is a very important task in the arena of natural language processing due to its promising applications. In order to achieve this task we mainly introduce the novel soft prompt tuning method of using soft prompts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Damith Chamalke Senadeera , Julia Ive

In object oriented software development, the analysis modeling is concerned with the task of identifying problem level objects along with the relationships between them from software requirements. The software requirements are usually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Jitendra Singh Thakur , Atul Gupta

With the rapid development of large language models, AI assistants like ChatGPT have become increasingly integrated into people's works and lives but are limited in personalized services. In this paper, we present a plug-and-play framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ruifeng Yuan , Shichao Sun , Yongqi Li , Zili Wang , Ziqiang Cao , Wenjie Li

Language models (LMs) are often expected to generate strings in some formal language; for example, structured data, API calls, or code snippets. Although LMs can be tuned to improve their adherence to formal syntax, this does not guarantee…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Terry Koo , Frederick Liu , Luheng He

While current chat-based AI assistants primarily operate reactively, responding only when prompted by users, there is significant potential for these systems to proactively assist in tasks without explicit invocation, enabling a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Valerie Chen , Alan Zhu , Sebastian Zhao , Hussein Mozannar , David Sontag , Ameet Talwalkar

Software requirements specification is undoubtedly critical for the whole software life-cycle. Nowadays, writing software requirements specifications primarily depends on human work. Although massive studies have been proposed to fasten the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Ziyan Zhao , Li Zhang , Xiaoyun Gao , Xiaoli Lian , Heyang Lv , Lin Shi

Controlled natural languages for industrial application are often regarded as a response to the challenges of translation and multilingual communication. This paper presents a quite different approach taken by Koenig & Bauer AG, where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Karolina Suchowolec

We formalize and analyze a new problem in formal language theory termed control improvisation. Given a specification language, the problem is to produce an improviser, a probabilistic algorithm that randomly generates words in the language,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Daniel J. Fremont , Alexandre Donzé , Sanjit A. Seshia

When humans design cost or goal specifications for robots, they often produce specifications that are ambiguous, underspecified, or beyond planners' ability to solve. In these cases, corrections provide a valuable tool for human-in-the-loop…

This paper presents a novel method to manipulate the visual appearance (pose and attribute) of a person image according to natural language descriptions. Our method can be boiled down to two stages: 1) text guided pose generation and 2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Xingran Zhou , Siyu Huang , Bin Li , Yingming Li , Jiachen Li , Zhongfei Zhang

Recent work in behavioral testing for natural language processing (NLP) models, such as Checklist, is inspired by related paradigms in software engineering testing. They allow evaluation of general linguistic capabilities and domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Ying Li , Rahul Singh , Tarun Joshi , Agus Sudjianto

Natural Language Processing (NLP) helps empower intelligent machines by enhancing a better understanding of the human language for linguistic-based human-computer communication. Recent developments in computational power and the advent of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Amirsina Torfi , Rouzbeh A. Shirvani , Yaser Keneshloo , Nader Tavaf , Edward A. Fox

Use case specifications have successfully been used for requirements description. They allow joining, in the same modeling space, the expectations of the stakeholders as well as the needs of the software engineer and analyst involved in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Rui Couto , António Nestor Ribeiro , José Creissac Campos

Recent AI-assistant agents, such as ChatGPT, predominantly rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with human annotations and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to align the output of large language models (LLMs) with human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zhiqing Sun , Yikang Shen , Qinhong Zhou , Hongxin Zhang , Zhenfang Chen , David Cox , Yiming Yang , Chuang Gan

We explore using latent natural language instructions as an expressive and compositional representation of complex actions for hierarchical decision making. Rather than directly selecting micro-actions, our agent first generates a latent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Hengyuan Hu , Denis Yarats , Qucheng Gong , Yuandong Tian , Mike Lewis

Reactive synthesis, the problem of automatically constructing a hardware circuit from a logical specification, is a long-standing challenge in formal verification. It is elusive for two reasons: It is algorithmically hard, and writing…

Modern language model-based AI systems are remarkably powerful, yet their capabilities remain fundamentally capped by their human creators in three key ways. First, although a model's weights can be updated via fine-tuning, acquiring new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zitong Yang

This paper develops a natural-language agent-based model of argumentation (ABMA). Its artificial deliberative agents (ADAs) are constructed with the help of so-called neural language models recently developed in AI and computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Gregor Betz