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The growing proliferation of customized and pretrained generative models has made it infeasible for a user to be fully cognizant of every model in existence. To address this need, we introduce the task of content-based model search: given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Daohan Lu , Sheng-Yu Wang , Nupur Kumari , Rohan Agarwal , Mia Tang , David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu

Seasoned Excel developers were invited to participate in a challenge to implement a spreadsheet with multi-dimensional variables. We analyzed their spreadsheet to see the different implement strategies employed. We identified two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Paul Mireault

Statistical topic models efficiently facilitate the exploration of large-scale data sets. Many models have been developed and broadly used to summarize the semantic structure in news, science, social media, and digital humanities. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Jian Tang , Cheng Li , Ming Zhang , Qiaozhu Mei

Reading comprehension models are based on recurrent neural networks that sequentially process the document tokens. As interest turns to answering more complex questions over longer documents, sequential reading of large portions of text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Mor Geva , Jonathan Berant

Selecting a subset of cells is a common task in data engineering, for example, to remove errors or select only specific parts of a table. Multiple approaches to express this selection exist. One option is numeric indexing, commonly found in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Philip Heltweg , Dirk Riehle , Georg-Daniel Schwarz

Tables, typically two-dimensional and structured to store large amounts of data, are essential in daily activities like database queries, spreadsheet manipulations, web table question answering, and image table information extraction.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Weizheng Lu , Jing Zhang , Ju Fan , Zihao Fu , Yueguo Chen , Xiaoyong Du

The present paper aims to explore higher education students' spreadsheet competencies and reliability through self-assessment and real-world problem-solving practices. Digital natives alleged skills and competences allowed us to hypothesize…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Maria Csernoch , Judit T. Kiss , Viktor Takács , Domicián Máté

Purpose: Advanced usage of Web Analytics tools allows to capture the content of user queries. Despite their relevant nature, the manual analysis of large volumes of user queries is problematic. This paper demonstrates the potential of using…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Anne Chardonnens , Ettore Rizza , Mathias Coeckelbergs , Seth van Hooland

We consider interactive tools that help users search for their most preferred item in a large collection of options. In particular, we examine example-critiquing, a technique for enabling users to incrementally construct preference models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-10-04 B. Faltings , P. Pu , P. Viappiani

It is now widely accepted that errors in spreadsheets are both common and potentially dangerous. Further research has taken place to investigate how frequently these errors occur, what impact they have, how the risk of spreadsheet errors…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-01-26 David Nixon , Mike O'Hara

This paper demonstrates a methodology to help practitioners maximise the utility of complex multidisciplinary engineering models implemented as spreadsheets, an area presenting unique challenges. As motivation we investigate the expanding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-21 David Birch , Helen Liang , Paul H J Kelly , Glen Mullineux , Tony Field , Joan Ko , Alvise Simondetti

Huge amount of information is present in the World Wide Web and a large amount is being added to it frequently. A query-specific summary of multiple documents is very helpful to the user in this context. Currently, few systems have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-20 C Ravindranath Chowdary , P Sreenivasa Kumar

Abstract--- Table detection and extraction has been studied in the context of documents like reports, where tables are clearly outlined and stand out from the document structure visually. We study this topic in a rather more challenging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Martin Holeček , Antonín Hoskovec , Petr Baudiš , Pavel Klinger

Most recently, researchers have started building large language models (LLMs) powered data systems that allow users to analyze unstructured text documents like working with a database because LLMs are very effective in extracting attributes…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Zhaoze Sun , Qiyan Deng , Chengliang Chai , Kaisen Jin , Xinyu Guo , Han Han , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang , Lei Cao

Understanding and extracting of information from large documents, such as business opportunities, academic articles, medical documents and technical reports, poses challenges not present in short documents. Such large documents may be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman , Tim Finin

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

Scientific research is a major driving force in a knowledge based economy. Income, health and wellbeing depend on scientific progress. The better we understand the inner workings of the scientific enterprise, the better we can prompt,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Michael Ginda , Andrea Scharnhorst , Katy Borner

In the search and retrieval of multimedia objects, it is impractical to either manually or automatically extract the contents for indexing since most of the multimedia contents are not machine extractable, while manual extraction tends to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Nikki Lijing Kuang , Clement H. C. Leung

Most Reading Comprehension methods limit themselves to queries which can be answered using a single sentence, paragraph, or document. Enabling models to combine disjoint pieces of textual evidence would extend the scope of machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Johannes Welbl , Pontus Stenetorp , Sebastian Riedel

Spreadsheets are used extensively within today's organisations. Although spreadsheets have many benefits, they can also present a significant risk exposure, requiring appropriate management. Protiviti has worked with a number of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-09-09 Thomas Lemon , Ewen Ferguson