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Spreadsheets are one of the most widely used programming environments, and are widely deployed in domains like finance where errors can have catastrophic consequences. We present a static analysis specifically designed to find spreadsheet…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Daniel W. Barowy , Emery D. Berger , Benjamin Zorn

Spreadsheets offer a supremely successful democratisation platform, placing the manipulation and presentation of numbers within the grasp of users that have little or no mathematical expertise or IT experience. What appears to be almost…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Peter Bartholomew

Workflows play a crucial role in enhancing enterprise efficiency by orchestrating complex processes with multiple tools or components. However, hand-crafted workflow construction requires expert knowledge, presenting significant technical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hanchao Liu , Rongjun Li , Weimin Xiong , Ziyu Zhou , Wei Peng

Natural Language to SQL (i.e., NL2SQL) translation is crucial for democratizing database access, but even state-of-the-art models frequently generate semantically incorrect SQL queries, hindering the widespread adoption of these techniques…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xinyu Liu , Shuyu Shen , Boyan Li , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

Converting text into the structured query language (Text2SQL) is a research hotspot in the field of natural language processing (NLP), which has broad application prospects. In the era of big data, the use of databases has penetrated all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ran Shen , Gang Sun , Hao Shen , Yiling Li , Liangfeng Jin , Han Jiang

Through a natural language interface (NLI) for exploratory visual analysis, users can directly "ask" analytical questions about the given tabular data. This process greatly improves user experience and lowers the technical barriers of data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yi Guo , Danqing Shi , Mingjuan Guo , Yanqiu Wu , Qing Chen , Nan Cao

Robust workflow composition is critical for effective agent performance, yet progress in Large Language Model (LLM) planning and reasoning is hindered by a scarcity of scalable evaluation data. This work introduces NL2Flow, a fully…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jungkoo Kang

We present SheetMind, a modular multi-agent framework powered by large language models (LLMs) for spreadsheet automation via natural language instructions. The system comprises three specialized agents: a Manager Agent that decomposes…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ruiyan Zhu , Xi Cheng , Ke Liu , Brian Zhu , Daniel Jin , Neeraj Parihar , Zhoutian Xu , Oliver Gao

Recent advances in neural network-based generative modeling have reignited the hopes in having computer systems capable of seamlessly conversing with humans and able to understand natural language. Neural architectures have been employed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Cristina Garbacea , Qiaozhu Mei

A spreadsheet is remarkably flexible in representing various forms of structured data, but the individual cells have no knowledge of the larger structures of which they may form a part. This can hamper comprehension and increase formula…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Alan Hall , Michel Wermelinger , Tony Hirst , Santi Phithakkitnukoon

Research on formulae production in spreadsheets has established the practice as high risk yet unrecognised as such by industry. There are numerous software applications that are designed to audit formulae and find errors. However these are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-03-13 Simon Thorne , David Ball , Zoe Lawson

Tables are a fundamental medium for organizing and analyzing data, making table reasoning a critical capability for intelligent systems. Although large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong general reasoning abilities, they still struggle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lang Cao , Jingxian Xu , Hanbing Liu , Jinyu Wang , Mengyu Zhou , Haoyu Dong , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

With the proliferation of data across various domains, there is a critical demand for tools that enable non-experts to derive meaningful insights without deep data analysis skills. To address this need, existing automatic fact sheet…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Minh Duc Vu , Jieshan Chen , Zhenchang Xing , Qinghua Lu , Xiwei Xu , Qian Fu

Spreadsheet computing is one of the more popular computing methodologies in today's modern society. The spreadsheet application's ease of use and usefulness has enabled non-programmers to perform programming-like tasks in a familiar setting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ezana N. Beyenne

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly replacing help forums like StackOverflow, and are especially helpful for non-professional programmers and end users. These users are often interested in data-centric tasks, such as spreadsheet…

Automatically generating webpage code from webpage designs can significantly reduce the workload of front-end developers, and recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promising potential in this area. However, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yi Gui , Zhen Li , Yao Wan , Yemin Shi , Hongyu Zhang , Yi Su , Bohua Chen , Dongping Chen , Siyuan Wu , Xing Zhou , Wenbin Jiang , Hai Jin , Xiangliang Zhang

Neural network based approaches to data-to-text natural language generation (NLG) have gained popularity in recent years, with the goal of generating a natural language prompt that accurately realizes an input meaning representation. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Yuheng Du , Shereen Oraby , Vittorio Perera , Minmin Shen , Anjali Narayan-Chen , Tagyoung Chung , Anu Venkatesh , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Background and Significance: Selecting cohorts for a clinical trial typically requires costly and time-consuming manual chart reviews resulting in poor participation. To help automate the process, National NLP Clinical Challenges (N2C2)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Samarth Rawal , Ashok Prakash , Soumya Adhya , Sidharth Kulkarni , Saadat Anwar , Chitta Baral , Murthy Devarakonda

Tabular data is ubiquitous in real-world applications and abundant on the web, yet its annotation has traditionally required human labor, posing a significant scalability bottleneck for tabular machine learning. Our methodology can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yaojie Hu , Ilias Fountalis , Jin Tian , Nikolaos Vasiloglou

Clinicians exploring oncology trial repositories often need ad-hoc, multi-constraint queries over biomarkers, endpoints, interventions, and time, yet writing SQL requires schema expertise. We demo FD-NL2SQL, a feedback-driven clinical…