6 papers
Insights into Natural Language Database Query Errors: From Attention Misalignment to User Handling Strategies
Zheng Ning, Yuan Tian, Zheng Zhang +2
Querying structured databases with natural language (NL2SQL) has remained a difficult problem for years. Recently, the advancement of machine learning (ML), natural language proces…
Studying and Recommending Information Highlighting in Stack Overflow Answers
Shahla Shaan Ahmed, Shaowei Wang, Yuan Tian +3
Context: Navigating the knowledge of Stack Overflow (SO) remains challenging. To make the posts vivid to users, SO allows users to write and edit posts with Markdown or HTML so tha…
Towards Better Entity Linking with Multi-View Enhanced Distillation
Yi Liu, Yuan Tian, Jianxun Lian +7
Dense retrieval is widely used for entity linking to retrieve entities from large-scale knowledge bases. Mainstream techniques are based on a dual-encoder framework, which encodes…
Understanding the Time to First Response In GitHub Pull Requests
Kazi Amit Hasan, Marcos Macedo, Yuan Tian +2
The pull-based development is widely adopted in modern open-source software (OSS) projects, where developers propose changes to the codebase by submitting a pull request (PR). Howe…
Automated Self-Admitted Technical Debt Tracking at Commit-Level: A Language-independent Approach
Mohammad Sadegh Sheikhaei, Yuan Tian
Software and systems traceability is essential for downstream tasks such as data-driven software analysis and intelligent tool development. However, despite the increasing attentio…
MVAM: Multi-variant Attacks on Memory for IoT Trust Computing
Arup Kumar Sarker, Md Khairul Islam, Yuan Tian
With the significant development of the Internet of Things and low-cost cloud services, the sensory and data processing requirements of IoT systems are continually going up. TrustZ…