Synthesizing Data Programs

Summary: Synthesizes data-transformation and feature programs from a target-language spec, a few examples, and optional hints to replace ad-hoc Python/regex pipelines. Emits small, maintainable target-language programs adaptable to diverse input formats and amenable to DB optimization. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 238
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,088 | 17.07%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Michael Cafarella (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cafarella_cidr15,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '15},
        title = {{Synthesizing Data Programs}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Cafarella, Michael},
        year = {2015}
}

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974	To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks	2006	SIGMOD	0.00012870746

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