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We introduce TableLLM, a robust large language model (LLM) with 8 billion parameters, purpose-built for proficiently handling tabular data manipulation tasks, whether they are embedded within documents or spreadsheets, catering to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xiaokang Zhang , Sijia Luo , Bohan Zhang , Zeyao Ma , Jing Zhang , Yang Li , Guanlin Li , Zijun Yao , Kangli Xu , Jinchang Zhou , Daniel Zhang-Li , Jifan Yu , Shu Zhao , Juanzi Li , Jie Tang

Spreadsheets in financial markets are frequently used as database, calculator and reporting application combined. This paper describes an alternative approach in which spreadsheet design and database technology have been brought together in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Brian Sentence

Data discovery in data lakes with ever increasing datasets has long been recognized as a big challenge in the realm of data management, especially for semantic search of and hierarchical global catalog generation of tables. While large…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Qi An , Chihua Ying , Yuqing Zhu , Yihao Xu , Manwei Zhang , Jianmin Wang

Tables have gained significant attention in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) due to their complex and flexible structure. Unlike linear text inputs, tables are two-dimensional, encompassing formats…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xiaofeng Wu , Alan Ritter , Wei Xu

Numerous knowledge workers utilize spreadsheets in business, accounting, and finance. However, a lack of systematic documentation methods for spreadsheets hinders automation, collaboration, and knowledge transfer, which risks the loss of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Amila Indika , Igor Molybog

Spreadsheets are widely recognized as the most popular end-user programming tools, which blend the power of formula-based computation, with an intuitive table-based interface. Today, spreadsheets are used by billions of users to manipulate…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Sibei Chen , Yeye He , Weiwei Cui , Ju Fan , Song Ge , Haidong Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Surajit Chaudhuri

Since the inception of VisiCalc over four decades ago, spreadsheets have undergone a gradual transformation, evolving from simple ledger automation tools to the current state of Excel, which can be described as an Integrated Development…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Andrew Kumiega

Translating users' natural language queries (NL) into SQL queries (i.e., Text-to-SQL, a.k.a. NL2SQL) can significantly reduce barriers to accessing relational databases and support various commercial applications. The performance of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xinyu Liu , Shuyu Shen , Boyan Li , Peixian Ma , Runzhi Jiang , Yuxin Zhang , Ju Fan , Guoliang Li , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

How to generate a large, realistic set of tables along with joinability relationships, to stress-test dataset discovery methods? Dataset discovery methods aim to automatically identify related data assets in a data lake. The development and…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zhenwei Dai , Chuan Lei , Asterios Katsifodimos , Xiao Qin , Christos Faloutsos , Huzefa Rangwala

This work reframes the Text-to-SQL task as a pathway for teaching large language models (LLMs) to reason over and manipulate tabular data--moving beyond the traditional focus on query generation. We propose a two-stage framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Josefa Lia Stoisser , Marc Boubnovski Martell , Julien Fauqueur

Machine learning (ML) algorithms are showing a growing trend in helping the scientific communities across different disciplines and institutions to address large and diverse data problems. However, many available ML tools are…

We present a modular, interactive system, SPORTSQL, for natural language querying and visualization of dynamic sports data, with a focus on the English Premier League (EPL). The system translates user questions into executable SQL over a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sebastian Martinez , Naman Ahuja , Fenil Bardoliya , Chris Bryan , Vivek Gupta

Tables in Web documents are pervasive and can be directly used to answer many of the queries searched on the Web, motivating their integration in question answering. Very often information presented in tables is succinct and hard to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Vicky Zayats , Kristina Toutanova , Mari Ostendorf

Students in introductory data management courses are often taught how to write queries in SQL. This is a useful and practical skill, but it gives limited insight into how queries are processed by relational database engines. In contrast,…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Michael Mior

Providing machine learning (ML) over relational data is a mainstream requirement for data analytics systems. While almost all the ML tools require the input data to be presented as a single table, many datasets are multi-table, which forces…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Lingjiao Chen , Arun Kumar , Jeffrey Naughton , Jignesh M. Patel

We intend to demonstrate the innate problems with existing spreadsheet products and to show how to tackle these issues using a new type of spreadsheet program called Resolver. It addresses the issues head-on and thereby moves the 1980's…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Patrick Kemmis , Giles Thomas

Relational tables, where each row corresponds to an entity and each column corresponds to an attribute, have been the standard for tables in relational databases. However, such a standard cannot be taken for granted when dealing with tables…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Peng Li , Yeye He , Cong Yan , Yue Wang , Surajit Chaudhuri

Following the recent successful examples of large technology companies, many modern enterprises seek to build knowledge graphs to provide a unified view of corporate knowledge and to draw deep insights using machine learning and logical…

The scale, variety, and quantity of publicly-available NLP datasets has grown rapidly as researchers propose new tasks, larger models, and novel benchmarks. Datasets is a community library for contemporary NLP designed to support this…

The advances of the Linked Open Data (LOD) initiative are giving rise to a more structured Web of data. Indeed, a few datasets act as hubs (e.g., DBpedia) connecting many other datasets. They also made possible new Web services for entity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Mazen Alsarem , Pierre-Edouard Portier , Sylvie Calabretto , Harald Kosch