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Record W1820584689 · doi:10.1109/icde.1998.655769

On querying spreadsheets

2002· article· en· W1820584689 on OpenAlex

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Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Database Systems and Queries
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceOnline analytical processingInteroperabilityData warehouseSchema (genetic algorithms)Software engineeringDatabaseGeneralityProgramming languageWorld Wide WebInformation retrieval

Abstract

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Considers the problem of querying the data in applications such as spreadsheets and word processors. This problem has several motivations from the perspective of data integration, interoperability and OLAP. We provide an architecture for realizing interoperability among such diverse applications and address the challenges that arise specifically in the context of querying data stored in spreadsheet applications. A fundamental challenge is the lack of a well-defined schema. We propose a framework in which the user can specify the layout of data in a spreadsheet, based on his perception of the important concepts underlying that data. Layout specifications can be viewed as the "physical schema" of a spreadsheet. We motivate the concept of an abstract database machine (ADM) that uses the layout specifications to provide a relational view of the data in spreadsheet applications and, similar to a DBMS, supports efficient querying of the spreadsheet data. We develop a methodology for building ADMs for spreadsheets and describe our implementation of an ADM for Microsoft Excel applications, based on the above methodology. Our implementation platform is IBM PCs running Windows NT, Microsoft Office and OLE 2.0. We demonstrate the generality and practicality of our approach by developing a formal characterization of the class of spreadsheets that can be handled in our framework. Our results show that the approach is capable of handling a broad class of naturally occurring spreadsheet applications. This work is part of an office tool integration project.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.963
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.222
Teacher spread0.199 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2002
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