FormaT5: Abstention and Examples for Conditional Table Formatting with Natural Language

Understand

Formatting is an important property in tables for visualization, presentation, and analysis.

• Spreadsheet software allows users to automatically format their tables by writing data-dependent conditional formatting (CF) rules.
• Writing such rules is often challenging for users as it requires them to understand and implement the underlying logic.
• We present FormaT5, a transformer-based model that can generate a CF rule given the target table and a natural language description of the desired formatting logic.