Learning Semantic String Transformations from Examples
Summary: Learns semantic string transformations from input–output examples, combining relational-table lookups with syntactic edits to handle dates, currencies, and heterogeneous values. A synthesis algorithm enumerates all consistent programs, implemented as an Excel add-in for end-user automation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Rishabh Singh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Sumit Gulwani (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@article{singh_vldb12,
title = {{Learning Semantic String Transformations from Examples}},
author = {Singh, Rishabh and Gulwani, Sumit},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '12},
volume = {5},
number = {8},
pages = {740--751},
doi = {10.14778/2212351.2212356},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2212351.2212356},
year = {2012}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,160 | BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00011883163 |
| 1,165 | Foofah: Transforming Data By Example | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00011860616 |
| 2,981 | Towards Dependable Data Repairing with Fixing Rules | 2014 | SIGMOD | 7.8960114e-05 |
| 4,990 | Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V | 2023 | VLDB | 6.4105738e-05 |
| 7,345 | NLyze: Interactive Programming by Natural Language for SpreadSheet Data Analysis and Manipulation | 2014 | SIGMOD | 5.6380973e-05 |
| 7,869 | Foofah: A Programming-By-Example System for Synthesizing Data Transformation Programs | 2017 | SIGMOD | 5.5273054e-05 |
| 8,160 | ICARUS: Minimizing Human Effort in Iterative Data Completion | 2018 | VLDB | 5.4754476e-05 |
| 11,293 | Dealing with Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Typos in Real-World Entity Matching | 2024 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 254 | Record Linkage: Similarity Measures and Algorithms | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00023199211 |
| 517 | Query by Output | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00017169735 |
| 3,294 | Multi-column Substring Matching for Database Schema Translation | 2006 | VLDB | 7.5491351e-05 |
| 3,509 | Learning String Transformations From Examples | 2009 | VLDB | 7.3562691e-05 |
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