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Many large financial planning models are written in a spreadsheet programming language (usually Microsoft Excel) and deployed as a spreadsheet application. Three groups, FAST Alliance, Operis Group, and BPM Analytics (under the name…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-08-26 Thomas A. Grossman , Ozgur Ozluk

Many questions in computational social science rely on datasets assembled from heterogeneous online sources, a process that is often labor-intensive, costly, and difficult to reproduce. Recent advances in large language models enable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Mengyi Sun

The development of modern information technologies permits to collect and to analyze huge amounts of statistical data in different spheres of life. The main problem is not to only to collect but to process all relevant information. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-07-08 O. Mryglod , Yu. Holovatch

In the 1990s, statisticians began thinking in a principled way about how computation could better support the learning and doing of statistics. Since then, the pace of software development has accelerated, advancements in computing and data…

Computation · Statistics 2018-06-05 Amelia McNamara

Table-based question answering (TableQA) is an important task in natural language processing, which requires comprehending tables and employing various reasoning ways to answer the questions. This paper introduces TableQAKit, the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Fangyu Lei , Tongxu Luo , Pengqi Yang , Weihao Liu , Hanwen Liu , Jiahe Lei , Yiming Huang , Yifan Wei , Shizhu He , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

Spreadsheets are widely used for data exploration. Since spreadsheet systems have limited capabilities, users often need to load spreadsheets to other data science environments to perform advanced analytics. However, current approaches for…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Felix Henze , Haralampos Gavriilidis , Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou , Volker Markl

This paper introduces a multi-agent application system designed to enhance office collaboration efficiency and work quality. The system integrates artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing technologies,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Songtao Sun , Jingyi Li , Yuanfei Dong , Haoguang Liu , Chenxin Xu , Fuyang Li , Qiang Liu

The frequency with which spreadsheets are used and the associated risk is well known. Many tools and techniques have been developed which help reduce risks associate with creating and maintaining spreadsheet. However, little consideration…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2009-08-13 Mel Glass , David Ford , Sebastian Dewhurst

Many information needs revolve around entities, which would be better answered by summarizing results in a tabular format, rather than presenting them as a ranked list. Unlike previous work, which is limited to retrieving existing tables,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

The abundance of the data in the Internet facilitates the improvement of extraction and processing tools. The trend in the open data publishing encourages the adoption of structured formats like CSV and RDF. However, there is still a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Mikhail Galkin , Dmitry Mouromtsev , Sören Auer

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML)-based systems are widely sought-after commercial solutions that can automate and augment core business services. Intelligent systems can improve the quality of services offered and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Akriti Chadda , Kelly Song , Raman Chandrasekar , Ian Gorton

Spreadsheet systems (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets) play a central role in modern data-centric workflows. As AI agents grow increasingly capable of automating complex tasks, such as controlling computers and generating presentations,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Banghao Chi , Yining Xie , Mingyuan Wu , Jingcheng Yang , Jize Jiang , Zhaoheng Li , Shengyi Qian , Minjia Zhang , Klara Nahrstedt , Rui Hou , Xiangjun Fan , Hanchao Yu

Data summarization is essential to discover insights from large datasets. In a spreadsheets, pivot tables offer a convenient way to summarize tabular data by computing aggregates over some attributes, grouped by others. However, identifying…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Whanhee Cho , Anna Fariha

As more and more monitoring systems have been deployed to smart cities, there comes a higher demand for converting new human-specified requirements to machine-understandable formal specifications automatically. However, these human-specific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Zirong Chen , Isaac Li , Haoxiang Zhang , Sarah Preum , John Stankovic , Meiyi Ma

The large availability of datasets fosters the use of \acrshort{ml} and \acrshort{ai} technologies to gather insights, study trends, and predict unseen behaviours out of the world of data. Today, gathering and integrating data from…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Marco Ripamonti , Flavio De Paoli , Matteo Palmonari

Designing a reliable natural language (NL) interface for querying tables has been a longtime goal of researchers in both the data management and natural language processing (NLP) communities. Such an interface receives as input an NL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Jonathan Berant , Daniel Deutch , Amir Globerson , Tova Milo , Tomer Wolfson

There is an overlooked iceberg of problems in end user computing. Spreadsheets are developed by people who are very skilled in their main job function, be it finance, procurement, or production planning, but often have had no formal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-06-03 Pat Cleary , Dr David Ball , Mukul Madahar , Simon Thorne , Christopher Gosling , Karen Fernandez

Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are widely used to assist with medical decision making. However, CDSS typically require manually curated rules and other data which are difficult to maintain and keep up-to-date. Recent systems…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Zhuochen Jin , Jingshun Yang , Shuyuan Cui , David Gotz , Jimeng Sun , Nan Cao

In daily life, there are many scenarios that people need to tackle data-related tasks, such as filling out forms, analyzing Excel files, and visualize data report. However, the tools available for these tasks often fragment, requiring users…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Huahang Li , Wentao Hu , Zhuoyue Wan , Chen Jason Zhang , Haoyang Li , Xiaoyong Wei

Spreadsheets are a ubiquitous software tool, used for a wide variety of tasks such as financial modelling, statistical analysis and inventory management. Extracting meaningful information from such data can be a difficult task, especially…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-08-11 Derek Flood , Kevin Mc Daid , Fergal Mc Caffery