GridBook: Natural Language Formulas for the Spreadsheet Grid
Abstract
Writing formulas on the spreadsheet grid is arguably the most widely practiced form of programming. Still, studies highlight the difficulties experienced by end-user programmers when learning and using traditional formulas, especially for slightly complex tasks. The purpose of GridBook is to ease these difficulties by supporting formulas expressed in natural language within the grid; it is the first system to do so.
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Indicating model uncertainty and an explanation for that uncertainty can help users disentangle the role of their prompting and output evaluation ability from that of models' capabilities, further supporting confidence adjustment.
“Finally, indicating model uncertainty [19,174,198], for example, by means of color-coding [167], and an explanation for that uncertainty [5,190], can also help users disentangle the role of their prompting and output evaluation ability from that of models' capabilities, further supporting confidence adjustment [197].”
From The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI (2024) · cites this paper as [167]
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- Authors
- Srinivasa Ragavan, S., Hou, Z., Wang, Y., Gordon, A. D., Zhang, H., & Zhang, D.
- Affiliations
- Microsoft Research, United Kingdom
- Microsoft Research Asia (China) (CN)
- Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Venue
- 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2022-03-22
- Pages
- 345-368
- OpenAlex
- W4221000625
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 2.83
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Software › Spreadsheets and End-User Computing
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Data Visualization and Analytics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
- Keywords
- spreadsheet formulas, natural language programming, end-user programming
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