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Large language models have shown unprecedented abilities in generating linguistically coherent and syntactically correct natural language output. However, they often return incorrect and inconsistent answers to input questions. Due to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jasmin Mousavi , Arash Termehchy

In this paper we present a framework to analyze conflicts of contracts written in structured English. A contract that has manually been rewritten in a structured English is automatically translated into a formal language using the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-09-14 Seyed M. Montazeri , Nivir K. S. Roy , Gerardo Schneider

Security policy enforcement in contemporary agentic systems predominantly consists of embedding natural-language policies within an agent's system prompt and delegating compliance to the agent's reasoning. This approach admits no formal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nils Palumbo , Sarthak Choudhary , Jihye Choi , Guy Amir , Prasad Chalasani , Somesh Jha

An object--oriented approach to create a natural language understanding system is considered. The understanding program is a formal system built on the base of predicative calculus. Horn's clauses are used as well--formed formulas. An…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Yuriy Ostapov

We propose the concept of adaptable processes as a way of overcoming the limitations that process calculi have for describing patterns of dynamic process evolution. Such patterns rely on direct ways of controlling the behavior and location…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Mario Bravetti , Cinzia Di Giusto , Jorge A Perez , Gianluigi Zavattaro

The draft paper defines a system, which is capable of maintaining bases of test cases for logical specifications. The specifications, which are subject to this system are transformed from their original shape in first-order logic to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-02-04 Andreas Faatz , Andreas Zinnen

Our goal is to use formal methods to analyse normative documents written in English, such as privacy policies and service-level agreements. This requires the combination of a number of different elements, including information extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-14 John J. Camilleri , Mohammad Reza Haghshenas , Gerardo Schneider

Recent work has shown that we can dramatically improve the performance of computer games and simulations through declarative processing: Character AI can be written in an imperative scripting language which is then compiled to relational…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Benjamin Sowell , Alan Demers , Johannes Gehrke , Nitin Gupta , Haoyuan Li , Walker White

This paper describes a simple yet efficient repetition-based modular system for speeding up air-traffic controllers (ATCos) training. E.g., a human pilot is still required in EUROCONTROL's ESCAPE lite simulator (see…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Amrutha Prasad , Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Petr Motlicek , Saeed Sarfjoo , Iuliia Nigmatulina , Karel Vesely

In this paper we provide a first analysis of the research questions that arise when dealing with the problem of communicating pieces of formal argumentation through natural language interfaces. It is a generally held opinion that formal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Federico Cerutti , Alice Toniolo , Timothy J. Norman

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

Plug-and-play language models (PPLMs) enable topic-conditioned natural language generation by pairing large pre-trained generators with attribute models used to steer the predicted token distribution towards the selected topic. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Ginevra Carbone , Gabriele Sarti

Unit testing frameworks are nowadays considered a best practice, included in almost all modern software development processes, to achieve rapid development of correct specifications. Knowledge representation and reasoning paradigms such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Giovanni Amendola , Tobias Berei , Giuseppe Mazzotta , Francesco Ricca

Automation services for complex business processes usually require a high level of information technology literacy. There is a strong demand for a smartly assisted process automation (IPA: intelligent process automation) service that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Nobuhiro Ito , Yuya Suzuki , Akiko Aizawa

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

Existing work on controlled text generation (CTG) assumes a control interface of categorical attributes. In this work, we propose a natural language (NL) interface, where we craft a PCFG to embed the control attributes into natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Jingyu Zhang , James Glass , Tianxing He

Synchronous languages rely on formal methods to ease the development of applications in an efficient and reusable way. Formal methods have been advocated as a means of increasing the reliability of systems, especially those which are safety…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-04-20 Annie Ressouche , Daniel Gaffé , Valérie Roy

Research shows that natural language processing models are generally considered to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks; but recent work has drawn attention to the issue of validating these adversarial inputs against certain criteria (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Maximilian Mozes , Max Bartolo , Pontus Stenetorp , Bennett Kleinberg , Lewis D. Griffin

Modern computer programming languages are governed by complex syntactic rules. They are unlike natural languages; they require extensive manual work and a significant amount of learning and practicing for an individual to become skilled at…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Youssef Bassil , Aziz Barbar

Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents often struggle to generalize knowledge to new tasks, even those structurally similar to ones they have mastered. Although recent approaches have attempted to mitigate this issue via zero-shot transfer,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ajsal Shereef Palattuparambil , Thommen George Karimpanal , Santu Rana