Spreadsheet Property Detection With Rule-assisted Active Learning
Zhe Chen, Sasha Dadiomov, Richard Wesley, Gang Xiao, Daniel Cory, Michael Cafarella, Jock D. Mackinlay · 2017
Spreadsheets are a critical and widely-used data management tool. Converting spreadsheet data into relational tables would bring benefits to a number of fields, including public policy, public health, and economics. Research to date has focused on designing domain-specific languages to describe transformation processes or automatically converting a specific type of spreadsheets. To handle a larger variety of spreadsheets, we have to identify various spreadsheet properties, which correspond to a series of transformation programs that contribute towards a general framework that converts spreadsheets to relational tables.