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We present Flipper, a natural language interface for describing high-level task specifications for robots that are compiled into robot actions. Flipper starts with a formal core language for task planning that allows expressing rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Ivan Gavran , Brendon Boldt , Eva Darulova , Rupak Majumdar

We develop NL2INTERFACE to explore the potential of generating usable interactive multi-visualization interfaces from natural language queries. With NL2INTERFACE, users can directly write natural language queries to automatically generate a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Yiru Chen , Ryan Li , Austin Mac , Tianbao Xie , Tao Yu , Eugene Wu

By combining voice and touch interactions, multimodal interfaces can surpass the efficiency of either modality alone. Traditional multimodal frameworks require laborious developer work to support rich multimodal commands where the user's…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Jackie Junrui Yang , Yingtian Shi , Yuhan Zhang , Karina Li , Daniel Wan Rosli , Anisha Jain , Shuning Zhang , Tianshi Li , James A. Landay , Monica S. Lam

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

Task assignment and scheduling algorithms are powerful tools for autonomously coordinating large teams of robotic or AI agents. However, the decisions these system make often rely on components designed by domain experts, which can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Jake Brawer , Kayleigh Bishop , Bradley Hayes , Alessandro Roncone

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

At present, executable visual workflows have emerged as a mainstream paradigm in real-world industrial deployments, offering strong reliability and controllability. However, in current practice, such workflows are almost entirely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yi Zhong , Buqiang Xu , Yijun Wang , Zifei Shan , Shuofei Qiao , Guozhou Zheng , Ningyu Zhang

This paper describes a neural semantic parser that maps natural language utterances onto logical forms which can be executed against a task-specific environment, such as a knowledge base or a database, to produce a response. The parser…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jianpeng Cheng , Siva Reddy , Vijay Saraswat , Mirella Lapata

APIs are everywhere; they provide access to automation solutions that could help businesses automate some of their tasks. Unfortunately, they may not be accessible to the business users who need them but are not equipped with the necessary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Siyu Huo , Kushal Mukherjee , Jayachandu Bandlamudi , Vatche Isahagian , Vinod Muthusamy , Yara Rizk

With the rise of popular task automation or IoT platforms such as 'If This Then That (IFTTT)', users can define rules to enable interactions between smart devices in their environment and thereby improve their daily lives. However, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ekene Attoh , Beat Signer

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

As the demand for querying databases in all areas of life continues to grow, researchers have devoted significant attention to the natural language interface for databases (NLIDB). This paper presents a comprehensive survey of recently…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Mengyi Liu , Jianqiu Xu

In today's software world with its cornucopia of reusable software libraries, when a programmer is faced with a programming task that they suspect can be completed through the use of a library, they often look for code examples using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Geert Heyman , Rafael Huysegems , Pascal Justen , Tom Van Cutsem

We present Text2App -- a framework that allows users to create functional Android applications from natural language specifications. The conventional method of source code generation tries to generate source code directly, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Masum Hasan , Kazi Sajeed Mehrab , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Rifat Shahriyar

In the geolocation field where high-level programs and low-level devices coexist, it is often difficult to find a friendly user inter- face to configure all the parameters. The challenge addressed in this paper is to propose intuitive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-04-23 M. -A. Abchir , Isis Truck , Anna Pappa

We show that explicit pragmatic inference aids in correctly generating and following natural language instructions for complex, sequential tasks. Our pragmatics-enabled models reason about why speakers produce certain instructions, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Daniel Fried , Jacob Andreas , Dan Klein

Recent frontier large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in identifying security vulnerabilities in large, mature open-source systems. As LLM-generated code becomes increasingly common, a natural goal is to prevent such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zhaorui Li , Chengyu Song

Natural language processing for programming aims to use NLP techniques to assist programming. It is increasingly prevalent for its effectiveness in improving productivity. Distinct from natural language, a programming language is highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Qingfu Zhu , Xianzhen Luo , Fang Liu , Cuiyun Gao , Wanxiang Che

XAI with natural language processing aims to produce human-readable explanations as evidence for AI decision-making, which addresses explainability and transparency. However, from an HCI perspective, the current approaches only focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Jialin Yu , Alexandra I. Cristea , Anoushka Harit , Zhongtian Sun , Olanrewaju Tahir Aduragba , Lei Shi , Noura Al Moubayed

Practical implementations of high-level languages must provide access to libraries and system services that have APIs specified in a low-level language (usually C). An important characteristic of such mechanisms is the foreign-interface…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Kathleen Fisher , Riccardo Pucella , John Reppy