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Programming by Demonstration Using Version Space Algebra
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iMAP: discovering complex semantic matches between database schemas
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Record linkage: similarity measures and algorithms
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Multi-column substring matching for database schema translation
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Transformation-based Framework for Record Matching
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Learning string transformations from examples
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Synthesizing view definitions from data
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Oracle-guided component-based program synthesis
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Dimensions in program synthesis
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Automating string processing in spreadsheets using input-output examples
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Spreadsheet table transformations from examples
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Spreadsheet data manipulation using examples
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Synthesizing number transformations from input-output examples
CAV'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Computer Aided Verification
Spreadsheet data manipulation using examples
Communications of the ACM
Synthesizing number transformations from input-output examples
CAV'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Computer Aided Verification
Automated feedback generation for introductory programming assignments
Proceedings of the 34th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
SmartSynth: synthesizing smartphone automation scripts from natural language
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We address the problem of performing semantic transformations on strings, which may represent a variety of data types (or their combination) such as a column in a relational table, time, date, currency, etc. Unlike syntactic transformations, which are based on regular expressions and which interpret a string as a sequence of characters, semantic transformations additionally require exploiting the semantics of the data type represented by the string, which may be encoded as a database of relational tables. Manually performing such transformations on a large collection of strings is error prone and cumbersome, while programmatic solutions are beyond the skill-set of end-users. We present a programming by example technology that allows end-users to automate such repetitive tasks. We describe an expressive transformation language for semantic manipulation that combines table lookup operations and syntactic manipulations. We then present a synthesis algorithm that can learn all transformations in the language that are consistent with the user-provided set of input-output examples. We have implemented this technology as an add-in for the Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet system and have evaluated it successfully over several benchmarks picked from various Excel help-forums.