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LLM prompts can allow developers to provide more context, which can enable them to receive information that more precisely aligns with their specific needs, potentially reducing the time spent sifting through web information.
“Compared to general web search queries [74], LLM prompts can allow developers to provide more context, which can enable them to receive information that more precisely aligns with their specific needs, potentially reducing the time spent on sifting through the information obtained from the web to suit their particular requirements.”
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- Authors
- Xia, X., Bao, L., Lo, D., Kochhar, P. S., Hassan, A. E., & Xing, Z.
- Affiliations
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Zhejiang University (CN)
- Singapore Management University (SG)
- Queen's University (CA)
- Australian National University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Bao, Lingfeng
- Venue
- Empirical Software Engineering
- Published
- 2017-04-09
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 3149-3185
- ISSN
- 1382-3256 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-7616
- OpenAlex
- W2604794021
- Cited by
- 174
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 27.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- Empirical Software Engineering (publishedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- Singapore Management University Institutional Knowledge (InK) (Singapore Management University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Baidu
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Keywords
- search query analysis, debugging, code reuse, third-party libraries, code search engines, domain-specific search engines, search query generation, software productivity
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