InfoSync: Information Synchronization across Multilingual Semi-structured Tables
Abstract
Information Synchronization of semi-structured data across languages is challenging. For instance, Wikipedia tables in one language should be synchronized across languages. To address this problem, we introduce a new dataset InfoSyncC and a two-step method for tabular synchronization. InfoSync contains 100K entity-centric tables (Wikipedia Infoboxes) across 14 languages, of which a subset (3.5K pairs) are manually annotated. The proposed method includes 1) Information Alignment to map rows and 2) Information Update for updating missing/outdated information for aligned tables across multilingual tables. When evaluated on InfoSync, information alignment achieves an F1 score of 87.91 (en <-> non-en). To evaluate information updation, we perform human-assisted Wikipedia edits on Infoboxes for 603 table pairs. Our approach obtains an acceptance rate of 77.28% on Wikipedia, showing the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2307.03313,
title = {InfoSync: Information Synchronization across Multilingual Semi-structured Tables},
author = {Siddharth Khincha and Chelsi Jain and Vivek Gupta and Tushar Kataria and Shuo Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.03313},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
22 pages, 7 figures, 20 tables, ACL 2023 (Toronto, Canada)