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Past ontology requirements engineering (ORE) has primarily relied on manual methods, such as interviews and collaborative forums, to gather user requirements from domain experts, especially in large projects. Current OntoChat offers a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yihang Zhao , Bohui Zhang , Xi Hu , Shuyin Ouyang , Jongmo Kim , Nitisha Jain , Jacopo de Berardinis , Albert Meroño-Peñuela , Elena Simperl

Ontology engineering (OE) in large projects poses a number of challenges arising from the heterogeneous backgrounds of the various stakeholders, domain experts, and their complex interactions with ontology designers. This multi-party…

With the rapid improvement of LLMs' coding capabilities, the bottleneck of LLM-based automated software development is shifting from generating correct code to eliciting users' requirements. Despite growing interest, the interview…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dongming Jin , Zhi Jin , Zheng Fang , Linyu Li , XiaoTian Yang , Yuanpeng He , Xiaohong Chen

Requirements elicitation, a critical, yet time-consuming and challenging step in product development, often fails to capture the full spectrum of user needs. This may lead to products that fall short of expectations. This paper introduces a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Mohammadmehdi Ataei , Hyunmin Cheong , Daniele Grandi , Ye Wang , Nigel Morris , Alexander Tessier

Requirements elicitation interviews are crucial for gathering system requirements but heavily depend on skilled analysts, making them resource-intensive, susceptible to human biases, and prone to miscommunication. Recent advancements in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alexander Korn , Samuel Gorsch , Andreas Vogelsang

Recent LLM (Large Language Models) advancements benefit many fields such as education and finance, but HR has hundreds of repetitive processes, such as access requests, medical claim filing and time-off submissions, which are unaddressed.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Weijie Xu , Jay Desai , Fanyou Wu , Josef Valvoda , Srinivasan H. Sengamedu

Interviews are a widely used technique in eliciting requirements to gather stakeholder needs, preferences, and expectations for a software system. Effective interviewing requires skilled interviewers to formulate appropriate interview…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yuchen Shen , Anmol Singhal , Travis Breaux

Agents, whether software or hardware, perceive their environment through sensors and act using actuators, often operating in dynamic, partially observable settings. They face challenges like incomplete and noisy data, unforeseen situations,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Saeedeh Ghanadbashi , Fatemeh Golpayegani

Evaluation of language model outputs on structured writing tasks is typically conducted with a number of desirable criteria presented to human evaluators or large language models (LLMs). For instance, on a prompt like "Help me draft an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Manya Wadhwa , Zayne Sprague , Chaitanya Malaviya , Philippe Laban , Junyi Jessy Li , Greg Durrett

The ontology engineering process is complex, time-consuming, and error-prone, even for experienced ontology engineers. In this work, we investigate the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide effective OWL ontology drafts…

Ontologies are pivotal for structuring knowledge bases to enhance question answering (QA) systems powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). However, traditional ontology creation relies on manual efforts by domain experts, a process that is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yash Tiwari , Owais Ahmad Lone , Mayukha Pal

Automatically generating formal ontologies from unstructured natural language remains a central challenge in knowledge engineering. While large language models (LLMs) show promise, it remains unclear which architectural design choices drive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Abid Talukder , Maruf Ahmed Mridul , Oshani Seneviratne

Traditionally, offline datasets have been used to evaluate task-oriented dialogue (TOD) models. These datasets lack context awareness, making them suboptimal benchmarks for conversational systems. In contrast, user-agents, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Taaha Kazi , Ruiliang Lyu , Sizhe Zhou , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Gokhan Tur

In the rapidly evolving field of conversational AI, Ontology Expansion (OnExp) is crucial for enhancing the adaptability and robustness of conversational agents. Traditional models rely on static, predefined ontologies, limiting their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jinggui Liang , Yuxia Wu , Yuan Fang , Hao Fei , Lizi Liao

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

This paper introduces the task of product demand clarification within an e-commercial scenario, where the user commences the conversation with ambiguous queries and the task-oriented agent is designed to achieve more accurate and tailored…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jingheng Ye , Yong Jiang , Xiaobin Wang , Yinghui Li , Yangning Li , Hai-Tao Zheng , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang

Fine-grained entity typing (FET), which assigns entities in text with context-sensitive, fine-grained semantic types, is a basic but important task for knowledge extraction from unstructured text. FET has been studied extensively in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Tanay Komarlu , Minhao Jiang , Xuan Wang , Jiawei Han

Optimization is as much about modeling the right problem as solving it. Identifying the right objectives, constraints, and trade-offs demands extensive interaction between researchers and stakeholders. Large language models can empower…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Joshua Drossman , Alexandre Jacquillat , Sébastien Martin

This research presents a comprehensive methodology for utilizing an ontology-driven structured prompts system in interplay with ChatGPT, a widely used large language model (LLM). The study develops formal models, both information and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Oleksandr Palagin , Vladislav Kaverinskiy , Anna Litvin , Kyrylo Malakhov

Explainable Reinforcement Learning (XRL) has emerged as a promising approach in improving the transparency of Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents. However, there remains a gap between complex RL policies and domain experts, due to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Haechang Kim , Hao Chen , Can Li , Jong Min Lee
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