NLyze: Interactive Programming by Natural Language for SpreadSheet Data Analysis and Manipulation
Summary: NLyze, an Excel add-in, provides interactive NL-to-DSL for spreadsheet tasks via a typed DSL (map, filter, reduce, join, format). Contextual translation disambiguates implicit references using spatial/temporal spreadsheet cues and paraphrases the DSL in English; top-1 94% (top-3 97%) on 3,570 descriptions across 40 tasks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Sumit Gulwani (Microsoft)
- 2. Mark Marron (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{gulwani_sigmod14,
title = {{NLyze: Interactive Programming by Natural Language for SpreadSheet Data Analysis and Manipulation}},
author = {Gulwani, Sumit and Marron, Mark},
series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2588555.2612177},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2612177},
year = {2014}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,733 | Interactive Query Synthesis from Input-Output Examples | 2017 | SIGMOD | 6.5335361e-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 |
| 2,412 | NaLIX: an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML | 2005 | SIGMOD | 8.6124752e-05 |
| 3,509 | Learning String Transformations From Examples | 2009 | VLDB | 7.3562691e-05 |
| 3,547 | Learning Semantic String Transformations from Examples | 2012 | VLDB | 7.3225973e-05 |
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