Semantic table structure identification in spreadsheets
Yakun Zhang, Xiao Jun Lv, Haoyu Dong, Wensheng Dou, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang, Jun Fang Wei, Dan Ye · 2021
Spreadsheets are widely used in various business tasks, and contain amounts of valuable data. However, spreadsheet tables are usually organized in a semi-structured way, and contain complicated semantic structures, e.g., header types and relations among headers. Lack of documented semantic table structures, existing data analysis and error detection tools can hardly understand spreadsheet tables. Therefore, identifying semantic table structures in spreadsheet tables is of great importance, and can greatly promote various analysis tasks on spreadsheets.