Enhancing factualness and controllability of Data-to-Text Generation via data Views and constraints

Craig Thomson, Clement Rebuffel, Ehud Reiter, Laure Soulier, Somayajulu Sripada, Patrick Gallinari


Abstract
Neural data-to-text systems lack the control and factual accuracy required to generate useful and insightful summaries of multidimensional data. We propose a solution in the form of data views, where each view describes an entity and its attributes along specific dimensions. A sequence of views can then be used as a high-level schema for document planning, with the neural model handling the complexities of micro-planning and surface realization. We show that our view-based system retains factual accuracy while offering high-level control of output that can be tailored based on user preference or other norms within the domain.
Anthology ID:
2023.inlg-main.16
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference
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September
Year:
2023
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Prague, Czechia
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C. Maria Keet, Hung-Yi Lee, Sina Zarrieß
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INLG | SIGDIAL
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SIGGEN
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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221–236
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.inlg-main.16
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.inlg-main.16
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Craig Thomson, Clement Rebuffel, Ehud Reiter, Laure Soulier, Somayajulu Sripada, and Patrick Gallinari. 2023. Enhancing factualness and controllability of Data-to-Text Generation via data Views and constraints. In Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference, pages 221–236, Prague, Czechia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Enhancing factualness and controllability of Data-to-Text Generation via data Views and constraints (Thomson et al., INLG-SIGDIAL 2023)
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