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People primarily consult tables to conduct data analysis or answer specific questions. Text generation systems that can provide accurate table summaries tailored to users' information needs can facilitate more efficient access to relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yilun Zhao , Zhenting Qi , Linyong Nan , Boyu Mi , Yixin Liu , Weijin Zou , Simeng Han , Ruizhe Chen , Xiangru Tang , Yumo Xu , Dragomir Radev , Arman Cohan

In Table-to-Text (T2T) generation, existing approaches predominantly focus on providing objective descriptions of tabular data. However, generating text that incorporates subjectivity, where subjectivity refers to interpretations beyond raw…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ronak Upasham , Tathagata Dey , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Information visualizations such as bar charts and line charts are very popular for exploring data and communicating insights. Interpreting and making sense of such visualizations can be challenging for some people, such as those who are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jason Obeid , Enamul Hoque

Few-shot table-to-text generation is a task of composing fluent and faithful sentences to convey table content using limited data. Despite many efforts having been made towards generating impressive fluent sentences by fine-tuning powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Wenting Zhao , Ye Liu , Yao Wan , Philip S. Yu

Table-to-text generation refers to generating a descriptive text from a key-value table. Traditional autoregressive methods, though can generate text with high fluency, suffer from low coverage and poor faithfulness problems. To mitigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Peng Wang , Junyang Lin , An Yang , Chang Zhou , Yichang Zhang , Jingren Zhou , Hongxia Yang

A mind-map is a diagram that represents the central concept and key ideas in a hierarchical way. Converting plain text into a mind-map will reveal its key semantic structure and be easier to understand. Given a document, the existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mengting Hu , Honglei Guo , Shiwan Zhao , Hang Gao , Zhong Su

Heterogenity of data-to-text generation datasets limits the research on data-to-text generation systems. We present TabGenie - a toolkit which enables researchers to explore, preprocess, and analyze a variety of data-to-text generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zdeněk Kasner , Ekaterina Garanina , Ondřej Plátek , Ondřej Dušek

Table-to-text generation aims at automatically generating text to help people conveniently obtain salient information in tables. Recent works explicitly decompose the generation process into content planning and surface generation stages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Liang Li , Ruiying Geng , Chengyang Fang , Bing Li , Can Ma , Binhua Li , Yongbin Li

Data-to-text generation models face challenges in ensuring data fidelity by referring to the correct input source. To inspire studies in this area, Wiseman et al. (2017) introduced the RotoWire corpus on generating NBA game summaries from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Hongmin Wang

We propose Composition Sampling, a simple but effective method to generate diverse outputs for conditional generation of higher quality compared to previous stochastic decoding strategies. It builds on recently proposed plan-based neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Shashi Narayan , Gonçalo Simões , Yao Zhao , Joshua Maynez , Dipanjan Das , Michael Collins , Mirella Lapata

The output structure of database-like tables, consisting of values structured in horizontal rows and vertical columns identifiable by name, can cover a wide range of NLP tasks. Following this constatation, we propose a framework for…

Automated generation of high-quality topical hierarchies for a text collection is a dream problem in knowledge engineering with many valuable applications. In this paper a scalable and robust algorithm is proposed for constructing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Chi Wang , Xueqing Liu , Yanglei Song , Jiawei Han

Extracting topics from text has become an essential task, especially with the rapid growth of unstructured textual data. Most existing works rely on highly computational methods to address this challenge. In this paper, we argue that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Salma Mekaoui , Hiba Sofyan , Imane Amaaz , Imane Benchrif , Arsalane Zarghili , Ilham Chaker , Nikola S. Nikolov

The task of table summarization involves generating text that both succinctly and accurately represents the table or a specific set of highlighted cells within a table. While significant progress has been made in table to text generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Deepanway Ghosal , Preksha Nema , Aravindan Raghuveer

Most existing text generation models follow the sequence-to-sequence paradigm. Generative Grammar suggests that humans generate natural language texts by learning language grammar. We propose a syntax-guided generation schema, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yafu Li , Leyang Cui , Jianhao Yan , Yongjing Yin , Wei Bi , Shuming Shi , Yue Zhang

Understanding whether a generated table is of good quality is important to be able to use it in creating or editing documents using automatic methods. In this work, we underline that existing measures for table quality evaluation fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Pritika Ramu , Aparna Garimella , Sambaran Bandyopadhyay

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

Charts are commonly used for exploring data and communicating insights. Generating natural language summaries from charts can be very helpful for people in inferring key insights that would otherwise require a lot of cognitive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Shankar Kantharaj , Rixie Tiffany Ko Leong , Xiang Lin , Ahmed Masry , Megh Thakkar , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

Extracting structured information from text, such as key-value pairs that could augment tabular data, is quite useful in many enterprise use cases. Although large language models (LLMs) have enabled numerous automated pipelines for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Satyananda Kashyap , Sola Shirai , Nandana Mihindukulasooriya , Horst Samulowitz

In the digital era, table structure recognition technology is a critical tool for processing and analyzing large volumes of tabular data. Previous methods primarily focus on visual aspects of table structure recovery but often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zhenrong Zhang , Shuhang Liu , Pengfei Hu , Jiefeng Ma , Jun Du , Jianshu Zhang , Yu Hu