FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
Thu 9 Jul 2026 11:50 - 12:10 at MB 5.215 - LLM for SE 6 Chair(s): Toufique Ahmed

Ticket-driven dialogues in cloud service systems, such as those in ByteDance’s Volcano Engine, are typically lengthy and fragmented. They are often interleaved across multiple evolving topics, which creates information overload, delays resolution, and risks obscuring critical details. While supervised or topic-aware summarization approaches can improve coherence, they require large annotated datasets and retraining, which are costly and poorly suited to dynamic environments. Zero-shot large language models (LLMs) alleviate these constraints, yet direct application to multi-party incident dialogues remains challenging due to overlapping voices, shifting focus, and substantial noise. To address this, we propose DIGEST, a topic-wise summarization framework that introduces hierarchical topic guidance into zero-shot LLM summarization. DIGEST first performs top-down segmentation to disentangle coarse threads and refine them into subtopics, then applies bottom-up aggregation to integrate local summaries into coherent narratives while preserving independence across issues. Experimental results demonstrate that it outperforms LLM-based summarization baselines.

Thu 9 Jul

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10:30 - 12:30
10:30
20m
Talk
Natural Language-Focused Software Engineering via Code-Documentation Equivalence
Research Papers
Aryaz Eghbali CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany, Zhongxin Liu Zhejiang University, Michael Pradel CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Pre-print
10:50
20m
Talk
Industrial Deployment of an AI Multi-Agent System for Requirements-Driven Code Verification
Industry Papers
Paul Baker JP Morgan - Chase, Blanca Manu JPMorganChase, Rebecca Moussa University College London, Federica Sarro University College London
11:10
20m
Talk
Leveraging LLMs for Alert Summarization and Mitigation Plan Generation
Industry Papers
Komal Sarda York University, Honggeun Ji York University, Amr M. Zaki York University, Marin Litoiu York University, Canada, Ian Watts IBM Canada, Larisa Shwartz IBM T.J. Watson Research
11:30
20m
Talk
TSGen: Automated Troubleshooting Guide Generation
Industry Papers
Yi Xiao Chongqing University, Hongyu Zhang Chongqing University, Daniel Genkin Microsoft, Chaoyun Zhang Microsoft, Rujia Wang Microsoft, Chetan Bansal Microsoft Research, Bhala Ranganathan Microsoft, Saravanakumar Rajmohan Microsoft 365, Minghua Ma Microsoft
11:50
20m
Talk
Topic-wise Summarization of Support Ticket Dialogue via LLM
Industry Papers
XiaoLei Chen Fudan University, Fengrui Liu ByteDance, Xiao He Bytedance, Tieying Zhang ByteDance, Peng Wang Fudan University, Wei Wang Fudan University