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Policymakers in domains such as emergency management, public health, and urban planning must make decisions under deep uncertainty, where outcomes depend on how large populations interpret information, coordinate, and adopt over time.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuxuan Li , Kyzyl Monteiro , Hirokazu Shirado , Sauvik Das

Multi-turn tool calling is essential for LLMs to function as autonomous agents, yet synthesizing the training data required for these capabilities remains a fundamental challenge. Existing synthetic data generation pipelines often produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Dinesh Khandelwal , Gnana Prakash Punnavajhala , GPS Bhargav , Gaurav Pandey , Sachin Joshi , Hima Karanam , Dinesh Raghu

Visual analytics (VA) workflows are inherently complex, involving data transformation, feature engineering, visual representation, and human interpretation. They are typically described in unstructured prose, hindering systematic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Natalia Andrienko , Gennady Andrienko , Jürgen Bernard , Michael Sedlmair

A common workflow in science and engineering is to (i) setup and deploy large experiments with tasks comprising an application and multiple parameter values; (ii) generate intermediate results; (iii) analyze them; and (iv) reprioritize the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Bruno Silva , Marco A. S. Netto , Renato L. F. Cunha

Driving Vision-Language-Action Models (Driving VLAs) commonly introduce natural-language reasoning as an intermediate interface for end-to-end planning, but reasoning-centric interfaces face three practical bottlenecks: obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Weicheng Zheng , Yixin Huang , Qiao Sun , Derun Li , Hang zhao

This paper presents the design and prototype implementation of a natural language interface for configuring enterprise firewalls. The framework allows administrators to express access control policies in plain language, which are then…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-12 F. Taghiyev , A. Aslanbayli

The advancement of Large Language Models (LLM) has also resulted in an equivalent proliferation in its applications. Software design, being one, has gained tremendous benefits in using LLMs as an interface component that extends fixed user…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Claudionor N. Coelho , Hanchen Xiong , Tushar Karayil , Sree Koratala , Rex Shang , Jacob Bollinger , Mohamed Shabar , Syam Nair

The strong performance of large language models (LLMs) raises extensive discussion on their application to code generation. Recent research suggests continuous program refinements through visible tests to improve code generation accuracy in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chao Lei , Yanchuan Chang , Nir Lipovetzky , Krista A. Ehinger

Large language models (LLMs) promise to accelerate UI design, yet current tools struggle with two fundamentals: externalizing designers' intent and controlling iterative change. We introduce SPEC, a structured, parameterized, hierarchical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yunnong Chen , Chengwei Shi , Liuqing Chen

The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to significant improvements in various service domains, including search, recommendation, and chatbot applications. However, applying state-of-the-art (SOTA) research to industrial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chiwan Park , Wonjun Jang , Daeryong Kim , Aelim Ahn , Kichang Yang , Woosung Hwang , Jihyeon Roh , Hyerin Park , Hyosun Wang , Min Seok Kim , Jihoon Kang

The field of data visualisation has long aimed to devise solutions for generating visualisations directly from natural language text. Research in Natural Language Interfaces (NLIs) has contributed towards the development of such techniques.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Paula Maddigan , Teo Susnjak

Resolving ambiguities through interaction is a hallmark of natural language, and modeling this behavior is a core challenge in crafting AI assistants. In this work, we study such behavior in LMs by proposing a task-agnostic framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Michael J. Q. Zhang , Eunsol Choi

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has showcased remarkable capacities for logical reasoning and natural language comprehension. These capabilities can be leveraged in solutions that semantically and textually model complex…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Syed Mekael Wasti , Ken Q. Pu , Ali Neshati

As the latest advancements in natural language processing, large language models (LLMs) have achieved human-level language understanding and generation abilities in many real-world tasks, and even have been regarded as a potential path to…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming Conversational Visual Analytics (CVA) by enabling data analysis through natural language. However, evaluating LLMs for CVA remains a challenge: requiring programming expertise, overlooking…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Srishti Palani , Vidya Setlur

We investigate the use of Natural Language Inference (NLI) in automating requirements engineering tasks. In particular, we focus on three tasks: requirements classification, identification of requirements specification defects, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Mohamad Fazelnia , Viktoria Koscinski , Spencer Herzog , Mehdi Mirakhorli

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is a widely used task specification language for autonomous systems. To mitigate the significant manual effort and expertise required to define LTL-encoded tasks, several methods have been proposed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 David Smith Sundarsingh , Jun Wang , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh , Yiannis Kantaros

Issue assignment is a critical process in software maintenance, where new issue reports are validated and assigned to suitable developers. However, manual issue assignment is often inconsistent and error-prone, especially in large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Arsham Khosravani , Alireza Hoseinpour , Arshia Akhavan , Mehdi Keshani , Abbas Heydarnoori

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise as data analysis agents, but existing benchmarks overlook the iterative nature of the field, where experts' decisions evolve with deeper insights of the dataset. To address this, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Hanyu Li , Haoyu Liu , Tingyu Zhu , Tianyu Guo , Zeyu Zheng , Xiaotie Deng , Michael I. Jordan

Recent advances in Generative AI have transformed how users interact with data analysis through natural language interfaces. However, many systems rely too heavily on LLMs, creating risks of hallucination, opaque reasoning, and reduced user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ratanond Koonchanok , Alex Kale , Khairi Reda