%0 Conference Proceedings %T Studying the Impact of Filling Information Gaps on the Output Quality of Neural Data-to-Text %A Thomson, Craig %A Zhao, Zhijie %A Sripada, Somayajulu %Y Davis, Brian %Y Graham, Yvette %Y Kelleher, John %Y Sripada, Yaji %S Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation %D 2020 %8 December %I Association for Computational Linguistics %C Dublin, Ireland %F thomson-etal-2020-studying %X It is unfair to expect neural data-to-text to produce high quality output when there are gaps between system input data and information contained in the training text. Thomson et al. (2020) identify and narrow information gaps in Rotowire, a popular data-to-text dataset. In this paper, we describe a study which finds that a state-of-the-art neural data-to-text system produces higher quality output, according to the information extraction (IE) based metrics, when additional input data is carefully selected from this newly available source. It remains to be shown, however, whether IE metrics used in this study correlate well with humans in judging text quality. %R 10.18653/v1/2020.inlg-1.6 %U https://aclanthology.org/2020.inlg-1.6 %U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.inlg-1.6 %P 35-40