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Learning to generate fluent natural language from structured data with neural networks has become an common approach for NLG. This problem can be challenging when the form of the structured data varies between examples. This paper presents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Sebastian Gehrmann , Falcon Z. Dai , Henry Elder , Alexander M. Rush

For many new application domains for data-to-text generation, the main obstacle in training neural models consists of a lack of training data. While usually large numbers of instances are available on the data side, often only very few text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ernie Chang , Xiaoyu Shen , Dawei Zhu , Vera Demberg , Hui Su

Table processing, a key task in natural language processing, has significantly benefited from recent advancements in language models (LMs). However, the capabilities of LMs in table-to-text generation, which transforms structured data into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Sahar Iravani , Tim . O . F Conrad

Recent advancements in Text-to-SQL have pushed database management systems towards greater democratization of data access. Today's language models are at the core of these advancements. They enable impressive Text-to-SQL generation as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Karime Maamari , Amine Mhedhbi

Table-to-text generation aims at automatically generating natural text to help people to conveniently obtain the important information in tables. Although neural models for table-to-text have achieved remarkable progress, some problems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Liang Li , Can Ma , Yinliang Yue , Linjun Shou , Dayong Hu

Generic generation and manipulation of text is challenging and has limited success compared to recent deep generative modeling in visual domain. This paper aims at generating plausible natural language sentences, whose attributes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Zhiting Hu , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Eric P. Xing

Knowledge graphs can represent information about the real-world using entities and their relations in a structured and semantically rich manner and they enable a variety of downstream applications such as question-answering, recommendation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Hanieh Khorashadizadeh , Nandana Mihindukulasooriya , Sanju Tiwari , Jinghua Groppe , Sven Groppe

The task of graph-to-text generation aims at producing sentences that preserve the meaning of input graphs. As a crucial defect, the current state-of-the-art models may mess up or even drop the core structural information of input graphs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Linfeng Song , Ante Wang , Jinsong Su , Yue Zhang , Kun Xu , Yubin Ge , Dong Yu

We study the pre-train + fine-tune strategy for data-to-text tasks. Our experiments indicate that text-to-text pre-training in the form of T5, enables simple, end-to-end transformer based models to outperform pipelined neural architectures…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mihir Kale , Abhinav Rastogi

The neural attention model has achieved great success in data-to-text generation tasks. Though usually excelling at producing fluent text, it suffers from the problem of information missing, repetition and "hallucination". Due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Xiaoyu Shen , Ernie Chang , Hui Su , Jie Zhou , Dietrich Klakow

In open domain table-to-text generation, we notice that the unfaithful generation usually contains hallucinated content which can not be aligned to any input table record. We thus try to evaluate the generation faithfulness with two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Tianyu Liu , Xin Zheng , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui

Text generation is a fundamental building block in natural language processing tasks. Existing sequential models performs autoregression directly over the text sequence and have difficulty generating long sentences of complex structures.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Qipeng Guo , Xipeng Qiu , Xiangyang Xue , Zheng Zhang

Referring Expression Generation (REG) is the task of generating contextually appropriate references to entities. A limitation of existing REG systems is that they rely on entity-specific supervised training, which means that they cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Meng Cao , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Recent neural models for data-to-document generation have achieved remarkable progress in producing fluent and informative texts. However, large proportions of generated texts do not actually conform to the input data. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Feng Nie , Hailin Chen , Jinpeng Wang , Jin-Ge Yao , Chin-Yew Lin , Rong Pan

Data-to-text generation involves transforming structured data, often represented as predicate-argument tuples, into coherent textual descriptions. Despite recent advances, systems still struggle when confronted with unseen combinations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Xinnuo Xu , Ivan Titov , Mirella Lapata

Understanding a long document requires tracking how entities are introduced and evolve over time. We present a new type of language model, EntityNLM, that can explicitly model entities, dynamically update their representations, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Yangfeng Ji , Chenhao Tan , Sebastian Martschat , Yejin Choi , Noah A. Smith

Methods to generate text from structured data have advanced significantly in recent years, primarily due to fine-tuning of pre-trained language models on large datasets. However, such models can fail to produce output faithful to the input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Zhuoer Wang , Marcus Collins , Nikhita Vedula , Simone Filice , Shervin Malmasi , Oleg Rokhlenko

Generating sports game reports from structured tables is a complex table-to-text task that demands both precise data interpretation and fluent narrative generation. Traditional model-based approaches require large, annotated datasets, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Shang-Hsuan Chiang , Tsan-Tsung Yang , An-Zi Yen , Wen-Chih Peng

Large pre-trained language models (LMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating long, fluent text; however, there is little to no analysis on their ability to maintain entity coherence and consistency. In this work, we focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Pinelopi Papalampidi , Kris Cao , Tomas Kocisky

This paper introduces a neural model for concept-to-text generation that scales to large, rich domains. We experiment with a new dataset of biographies from Wikipedia that is an order of magnitude larger than existing resources with over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Remi Lebret , David Grangier , Michael Auli