SpecValidator detects lexical vagueness, under-specification, and syntax-formatting defects in LLM code-generation prompts with F1 0.804, outperforming GPT-5-mini and Claude Sonnet 4, and shows that under-specification is the most damaging defect type while richer benchmarks are more resilient.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 34(2), 1–23
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