This $310,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to develop interactive dialogue systems that can help software engineers implement non-functional requirements, specifically related to privacy and legal needs. The project at the University of Maine System aims to: (1) conduct experiments on how software engineers interact with dialogue systems to implement non-functional requirements,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $599,898 to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation to develop advanced, user-centric task-oriented dialog systems. The project aims to enhance the adaptability, flexibility, and personalization of these dialog systems by leveraging large-scale language models and reinforcement learning. Key goals include creating...
This Project Grant award, valued at $347,549, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program. The award supports research by New York University (NYU) to develop interactive language systems that can critically reason about textual sources to provide high-quality, up-to-date information. The key focus areas include: (1) expanding the definition of document relevancy to incorporate...
This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $166,937 to San Diego State University Research Foundation to support modeling of computer-mediated task-oriented dialogues using multi-modality information theoretic approaches. The Foundation will deliver research investigating the development and use of computational techniques to analyze multi-party, multi-modal conversations between...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $329,183 Project Grant to the College of William & Mary under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, will fund the development of a framework and methodology to enable researchers and software engineers to better interpret the behavior of AI-powered developer tools that leverage neural language models for source code. The project aims to generate global and local...
The University of Notre Dame received a two-year, $165,235 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds collaborative research on natural language (variety) processing through September 2023. Specifically, the University will conduct investigator-initiated research to advance the development and use of computational techniques for processing diverse human languages and language varieties...
The University of Notre Dame received a three-year, $409,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SHF: SMALL: CONTEXT-AWARE MODELS OF SOURCE CODE SUMMARIZATION" from October 2021 through September 2024. The project aims to develop context-aware models for automatically summarizing source code through investigator-initiated...
The University of Notre Dame received a three-year, $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to support the "DASS: Principled Software Design and Accountability" project. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which aims to advance computing and communications research and education. Through this funding, Notre Dame will deliver a project focused on investigator-initiated research and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $299,550 Project Grant to the University of Notre Dame under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to support research titled "PFI-TT: AN ANALYSIS TOOL SUPPORTING THE SAFE DEPLOYMENT OF NEW FEATURES IN EVOLVING SOFTWARE SYSTEMS." The two-year grant project, beginning July 15, 2021 and concluding August 31, 2023, will fund the development of an analysis tool to help safely introduce new features...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $252,007 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to Northeastern University. The grant supports the development and testing of AI-based programming tools to assist social and natural scientists with computer programming tasks. The research team is developing large language models and associated tools to support programming languages commonly used in the sciences, such as MATLAB and R, in order to make programming easier...