FORGE 2025
Sun 27 - Mon 28 April 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2025

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) advances have led to new technologies that generate high-quality code, natural language, and images. The next step is to integrate GenAI technology is used in various aspects while conducting research or other related areas, a task typically conducted by researchers. Such research outcomes always come with a certain risk of liability. This paper sheds light on the various research aspects in which GenAI is used, thus raising awareness of its legal implications to novice and budding researchers. In particular, there are two risks: data protection and copyright. Both aspects are crucial for GenAI. We summarize key aspects regarding our current knowledge that every software researcher involved in using GenAI should be aware of to avoid critical mistakes that may expose them to liability claims and propose a checklist to guide such awareness.

Life is full of choices and I am at the juncture of my life where everything is moving and evolving very fast. It feels lucky to be researching in these amazing times. I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada and Director of Software Hub for AnalytiKs, Technology and Innovation (S.H.A.K.T.I) lab (https://shaktilab.org/)and my area of research is Requirements Engineering, Software Engineering, Data analytics and Responsible Software Engineering.

Mon 28 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
Session4: Human-AI Collaboration & Legal Aspects of using FMResearch Papers / Industry Papers at 207
Chair(s): Zhenhao Li York University
11:00
12m
Long-paper
Extracting Fix Ingredients using Language Models
Research Papers
Julian Prenner Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Romain Robbes CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux
11:12
12m
Long-paper
CodeFlow: Program Behavior Prediction with Dynamic Dependencies Learning
Research Papers
Cuong Chi Le FPT Software AI Center, Hoang Nhat Phan Nanyang Technological University, Huy Nhat Phan FPT Software AI Center, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas, Nghi D. Q. Bui Salesforce Research
11:24
12m
Long-paper
Addressing Specific and Complex Scenarios in Semantic Parsing
Research Papers
Yu Wang Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ming Fan Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ting Liu Xi'an Jiaotong University
11:36
12m
Long-paper
Skill over Scale: The Case for Medium, Domain-Specific Models for SE
Research Papers
Manisha Mukherjee Carnegie Mellon University, Vincent J. Hellendoorn Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
11:48
12m
Long-paper
Resource-Efficient & Effective Code Summarization
Research Papers
Saima Afrin William & Mary, Joseph Call William & Mary, Khai Nguyen William & Mary, Oscar Chaparro William & Mary, Antonio Mastropaolo William and Mary, USA
12:00
6m
Short-paper
How Developers Interact with AI: A Taxonomy of Human-AI Collaboration in Software Engineering
Research Papers
Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University
Pre-print
12:06
6m
Short-paper
"So what if I used GenAI?” - Legal Implications of Using GenAI in Software Engineering Research
Research Papers
Gouri Ginde (Deshpande) University of Calgary
Pre-print
12:12
6m
Short-paper
Evaluating the Ability of GPT-4o to Generate Verifiable Specifications in VeriFast
Research Papers
Marilyn Rego Purdue University, Wen Fan Purdue University, Xin Hu Univeristy of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Sanya Dod , Zhaorui Ni Purdue University, Danning Xie Purdue University, Jenna DiVincenzo (Wise) Purdue University, Lin Tan Purdue University
12:18
6m
Short-paper
Towards Generating App Feature Descriptions Automatically with LLMs: the Setapp Case Study
Industry Papers
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