A General Benchmarking Framework for Text Generation

Diego Moussallem, Paramjot Kaur, Thiago Ferreira, Chris van der Lee, Anastasia Shimorina, Felix Conrads, Michael Röder, René Speck, Claire Gardent, Simon Mille, Nikolai Ilinykh, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo


Abstract
The RDF-to-text task has recently gained substantial attention due to the continuous growth of RDF knowledge graphs in number and size. Recent studies have focused on systematically comparing RDF-to-text approaches on benchmarking datasets such as WebNLG. Although some evaluation tools have already been proposed for text generation, none of the existing solutions abides by the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR) principles and involves RDF data for the knowledge extraction task. In this paper, we present BENG, a FAIR benchmarking platform for Natural Language Generation (NLG) and Knowledge Extraction systems with focus on RDF data. BENG builds upon the successful benchmarking platform GERBIL, is opensource and is publicly available along with the data it contains.
Anthology ID:
2020.webnlg-1.3
Volume:
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web (WebNLG+)
Month:
12
Year:
2020
Address:
Dublin, Ireland (Virtual)
Editors:
Thiago Castro Ferreira, Claire Gardent, Nikolai Ilinykh, Chris van der Lee, Simon Mille, Diego Moussallem, Anastasia Shimorina
Venue:
WebNLG
SIG:
SIGGEN
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
27–33
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.webnlg-1.3
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Cite (ACL):
Diego Moussallem, Paramjot Kaur, Thiago Ferreira, Chris van der Lee, Anastasia Shimorina, Felix Conrads, Michael Röder, René Speck, Claire Gardent, Simon Mille, Nikolai Ilinykh, and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo. 2020. A General Benchmarking Framework for Text Generation. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web (WebNLG+), pages 27–33, Dublin, Ireland (Virtual). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A General Benchmarking Framework for Text Generation (Moussallem et al., WebNLG 2020)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.webnlg-1.3.pdf
Code
 dice-group/beng
Data
WebNLG