3 papers
cs.CL2026
Do You Understand How I Feel?: Towards Verified Empathy in Therapy Chatbots
Francesco Dettori, Matteo Forasassi, Lorenzo Veronese +3
Conversational agents are increasingly used as support tools along mental therapeutic pathways with significant societal impacts. In particular, empathy is a key non-functional req…
cs.SE2025
A Research Roadmap for Augmenting Software Engineering Processes and Software Products with Generative AI
Domenico Amalfitano, Andreas Metzger, Marco Autili +8
Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly transforming software engineering (SE) practices, influencing how SE processes are executed, as well as how software systems are developed, operate…
cs.SE2025
How Toxic Can You Get? Search-based Toxicity Testing for Large Language Models
Simone Corbo, Luca Bancale, Valeria De Gennaro +3
Language is a deep-rooted means of perpetration of stereotypes and discrimination. Large Language Models (LLMs), now a pervasive technology in our everyday lives, can cause extensi…