Top-Down oder Bottom-Up?/Top-Down or Bottom-Up?

Michael Fritsch
1992 Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik  
Automatic synthesis of web data extraction programs has been explored in a variety of settings, but in practice there remain various robustness and usability challenges. In this work we present a novel program synthesis approach which combines the benefits of deductive and enumerative synthesis strategies, yielding a semi-supervised technique with which concise programs expressible in standard languages can be synthesized from very few examples. We demonstrate improvement over existing
more » ... s in terms of overall accuracy, number of examples required, and program complexity. Our method has been deployed in the Microsoft Power BI product and released to millions of users.
doi:10.1515/jbnst-1992-5-604 fatcat:mmztkyctvfgzvozq6jzrgaflqm