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High-quality datasets are typically required for accomplishing data-driven tasks, such as training medical diagnosis models, predicting real-time traffic conditions, or conducting experiments to validate research hypotheses. Consequently,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Pengyue Li , Sheng Wang , Hua Dai , Zhiyu Chen , Zhifeng Bao , Brian D. Davison

There has been a significant amount of research into spreadsheets over the last two decades. Errors in spreadsheets are well documented. Once used mainly for simple functions such as logging, tracking and totalling information, spreadsheets…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Mukul Madahar , Pat Cleary , David Ball

Spreadsheet software is the tool of choice for interactive ad-hoc data management, with adoption by billions of users. However, spreadsheets are not scalable, unlike database systems. On the other hand, database systems, while highly…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Mangesh Bendre , Vipul Venkataraman , Xinyan Zhou , Kevin Chang , Aditya Parameswaran

Large language model (LLM)-based search agents have proven promising for addressing knowledge-intensive problems by incorporating information retrieval capabilities. Existing works largely focus on optimizing the reasoning paradigms of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tongyu Wen , Guanting Dong , Zhicheng Dou

Traditional retrieval methods have been essential for assessing document similarity but struggle with capturing semantic nuances. Despite advancements in latent semantic analysis (LSA) and deep learning, achieving comprehensive semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Solmaz Seyed Monir , Irene Lau , Shubing Yang , Dongfang Zhao

Spreadsheets are used to develop application software that is distributed to users. Unfortunately, the users often have the ability to change the programming statements ("source code") of the spreadsheet application. This causes a host of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Thomas A. Grossman

The rapid growth of web has resulted in vast volume of information. Information availability at a rapid speed to the user is vital. English language (or any for that matter) has lot of ambiguity in the usage of words. So there is no…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-08-30 Jeevan H E , Prashanth P P , Punith Kumar S N , Vinay Hegde

Heavy use of spreadsheets by organisations bears many potential risks such as errors, ambiguity, data loss, duplication, and fraud. In this paper these risks are briefly outlined along with their available mitigation methods such as:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Mahmood H. Shubbak , Simon Thorne

Spreadsheets are widely used in industry, even for critical business processes. This implies the need for proper risk assessment in spreadsheets to evaluate the reliability and validity of the spreadsheet's outcome. As related research has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Thomas Reschenhofer , Bernhard Waltl , Klym Shumaiev , Florian Matthes

We report on the development of a general tool called ExSched, implemented as a plug-in for Microsoft Excel, for solving a class of constraint satisfaction problems. The traditional spreadsheet paradigm is based on attaching arithmetic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Siddharth Chitnis , Madhu Yennamani , Gopal Gupta

Exploratory search aims to guide users through a corpus rather than pinpointing exact information. We propose an exploratory search system based on hierarchical clusters and document summaries using sentence embeddings. With sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Austin Silveria

Tables are an extremely powerful visual and interactive tool for structuring and manipulating data, making spreadsheet programs one of the most popular computer applications. In this paper we introduce and address the task of recommending…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

Large Language Models (LLM) have become sophisticated enough that complex computer programs can be created through interpretation of plain English sentences and implemented in a variety of modern languages such as Python, Java Script, C++…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Simon Thorne

Spreadsheets are commonly used in organizations as a programming tool for business-related calculations and decision making. Since faults in spreadsheets can have severe business impacts, a number of approaches from general software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Patrick Koch , Konstantin Schekotihin , Dietmar Jannach , Birgit Hofer , Franz Wotawa

Due to the increasing storage data on Web Applications, it becomes very difficult to use only keyword-based searches to provide comprehensive search results, thus increasing the difficulty for web users to search information on the web. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ikechukwu Onyenwe , Stanley Ogbonna , Ebele Onyedimma , Onyedikachukwu Ikechukwu-Onyenwe , Chidinma Nwafor

Cross-lingual document search is an information retrieval task in which the queries' language differs from the documents' language. In this paper, we study the instability of neural document search models and propose a novel end-to-end…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jiapeng Liu , Xiao Zhang , Dan Goldwasser , Xiao Wang

Utilizing large language models (LLMs) for document reranking has been a popular and promising research direction in recent years, many studies are dedicated to improving the performance and efficiency of using LLMs for reranking. Besides,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Qi Liu , Haozhe Duan , Yiqun Chen , Quanfeng Lu , Weiwei Sun , Jiaxin Mao

Spreadsheets are widely used in industry, because they are flexible and easy to use. Sometimes they are even used for business-critical applications. It is however difficult for spreadsheet users to correctly assess the quality of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Felienne Hermans , Martin Pinzger , Arie van Deursen

EquiX is a search language for XML that combines the power of querying with the simplicity of searching. Requirements for such languages are discussed and it is shown that EquiX meets the necessary criteria. Both a graphical abstract syntax…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sara Cohen , Yaron Kanza , Yakov Kogan , Werner Nutt , Yehoshua Sagiv , Alexander Serebrenik

With the ever-increasing quantity and variety of data worldwide, the Web has become a rich repository of mathematical formulae. This necessitates the creation of robust and scalable systems for Mathematical Information Retrieval, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Richard Zanibbi , Kenny Davila , Andrew Kane , Frank Tompa