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Reasoning Trajectories for Socratic Debugging of Student Code: From Misconceptions to Contradictions and Updated Beliefs
Erfan Al-Hossami, Razvan Bunescu
In Socratic debugging, instructors guide students towards identifying and fixing a bug on their own, instead of providing the bug fix directly. Most novice programmer bugs are caus…
McMining: Automated Discovery of Misconceptions in Student Code
Erfan Al-Hossami, Razvan Bunescu
When learning to code, students often develop misconceptions about various programming language concepts. These can not only lead to bugs or inefficient code, but also slow down th…
Engineering Serendipity through Recommendations of Items with Atypical Aspects
Ramit Aditya, Razvan Bunescu, Smita Nannaware +1
A restaurant dinner or a hotel stay may lead to memorable experiences when guests encounter unexpected aspects that also match their interests. For example, an origami-making stati…
Extraction of Atypical Aspects from Customer Reviews: Datasets and Experiments with Language Models
Smita Nannaware, Erfan Al-Hossami, Razvan Bunescu
A restaurant dinner may become a memorable experience due to an unexpected aspect enjoyed by the customer, such as an origami-making station in the waiting area. If aspects that ar…
Can Language Models Employ the Socratic Method? Experiments with Code Debugging
Erfan Al-Hossami, Razvan Bunescu, Justin Smith +1
When employing the Socratic method of teaching, instructors guide students toward solving a problem on their own rather than providing the solution directly. While this strategy ca…
A Survey on Artificial Intelligence for Source Code: A Dialogue Systems Perspective
Erfan Al-Hossami, Samira Shaikh
In this survey paper, we overview major deep learning methods used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and source code over the last 35 years. Next, we present a survey of the app…
Can We Generate Shellcodes via Natural Language? An Empirical Study
Pietro Liguori, Erfan Al-Hossami, Domenico Cotroneo +3
Writing software exploits is an important practice for offensive security analysts to investigate and prevent attacks. In particular, shellcodes are especially time-consuming and a…
EVIL: Exploiting Software via Natural Language
Pietro Liguori, Erfan Al-Hossami, Vittorio Orbinato +4
Writing exploits for security assessment is a challenging task. The writer needs to master programming and obfuscation techniques to develop a successful exploit. To make the task…
Shellcode_IA32: A Dataset for Automatic Shellcode Generation
Pietro Liguori, Erfan Al-Hossami, Domenico Cotroneo +3
We take the first step to address the task of automatically generating shellcodes, i.e., small pieces of code used as a payload in the exploitation of a software vulnerability, sta…