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Spreadsheets are among the most commonly used applications for data management and analysis. Perhaps they are even among the most widely used computer applications of all kinds. They combine in a natural and intuitive way data processing…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Jacek Sroka , Adrian Panasiuk , Krzysztof Stencel , Jerzy Tyszkiewicz

People without a database background usually rely on file systems or tools such as Excel for data management, which often lead to redundancy and data inconsistency. Relational databases possess strong data management capabilities, but…

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

While current tasks of converting natural language to SQL (NL2SQL) using Foundation Models have shown impressive achievements, adapting these approaches for converting natural language to Graph Query Language (NL2GQL) encounters hurdles due…

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One of the developers' biggest challenges in low-code platforms is retrieving data from a database using SQL queries. Here, we propose a pipeline allowing developers to write natural language (NL) to retrieve data. In this study, we…

Creating challenging tabular inference data is essential for learning complex reasoning. Prior work has mostly relied on two data generation strategies. The first is human annotation, which yields linguistically diverse data but is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Aashna Jena , Vivek Gupta , Manish Shrivastava , Julian Martin Eisenschlos

NL2SQL (natural language to SQL) translates natural language questions into SQL queries, thereby making structured data accessible to non-technical users, serving as the foundation for intelligent data applications. State-of-the-art NL2SQL…

Logging is a critical function in modern distributed applications, but the lack of standardization in log query languages and formats creates significant challenges. Developers currently must write ad hoc queries in platform-specific…

The impressive performance of large language models (LLMs) on code-related tasks has shown the potential of fully automated software development. In light of this, we introduce a new software engineering task, namely Natural Language to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Daoguang Zan , Ailun Yu , Wei Liu , Dong Chen , Bo Shen , Wei Li , Yafen Yao , Yongshun Gong , Xiaolin Chen , Bei Guan , Zhiguang Yang , Yongji Wang , Qianxiang Wang , Lizhen Cui

The Natural Language to Visualization (NL2Vis) task aims to transform natural-language descriptions into visual representations for a grounded table, enabling users to gain insights from vast amounts of data. Recently, many deep…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Yang Wu , Yao Wan , Hongyu Zhang , Yulei Sui , Wucai Wei , Wei Zhao , Guandong Xu , Hai Jin

Literature review tables are essential for summarizing and comparing collections of scientific papers. In this paper, we study the automatic generation of such tables from a pool of papers to satisfy a user's information need. Building on…

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One of the most important assets of any company is being able to easily access information on itself and on its business. In this line, it has been observed that this important information is often stored in one of the millions of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Jácome Cunha , João Paulo Fernandes , Rui Pereira , João Saraiva

Spreadsheets provide a flexible and easy to use software development environment, but that leads to error proneness. Work has been done to prevent errors in spreadsheets, including using models to specify distinct parts of a spreadsheet as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Jorge Mendes , João Saraiva

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in generating standalone charts, synthesizing comprehensive dashboards remains a formidable challenge. Existing end-to-end paradigms, which typically treat…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Boshen Shi , Kexin Yang , Yuanbo Yang , Guanguang Chang , Ce Chi , Zhendong Wang , Xing Wang , Junlan Feng

Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) provides a new model-centric paradigm that simplifies database access for non-technical users by converting natural language queries into SQL commands. Recent advancements, particularly those integrating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jian Chen , Zhenyan Chen , Xuming Hu , Peilin Zhou , Yining Hua , Han Fang , Cissy Hing Yee Choy , Xinmei Ke , Jingfeng Luo , Zixuan Yuan

Advanced table question answering (TableQA) methods prompt large language models (LLMs) to generate answer text, SQL query, Python code, or custom operation, which impressively improve the complex reasoning problems in the TableQA task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhongyuan Wang , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie , Hangyu Mao

A number of automated techniques and tools were proposed in the research literature over the years which aim to support the spreadsheet developer in the process of testing and debugging a faulty spreadsheet. One underlying assumption of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Dietmar Jannach , Thomas Schmitz

Classical planners are powerful systems, but modeling tasks in input formats such as PDDL is tedious and error-prone. In contrast, planning with Large Language Models (LLMs) allows for almost any input text, but offers no guarantees on plan…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Elliot Gestrin , Marco Kuhlmann , Jendrik Seipp

Current Text-to-Code models demonstrate impressive capabilities in generating executable code from natural language snippets. However, current studies focus on technical instructions and programmer-oriented language, and it is an open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Asaf Achi Mordechai , Yoav Goldberg , Reut Tsarfaty

A new MS Excel application has been developed which seeks to reduce the risks associated with the development, operation and auditing of Excel spreadsheets. FormulaDataSleuth provides a means of checking spreadsheet formulas and data as…

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