The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation

Jekaterina Novikova, Ondřej Dušek, Verena Rieser


Abstract
This paper describes the E2E data, a new dataset for training end-to-end, data-driven natural language generation systems in the restaurant domain, which is ten times bigger than existing, frequently used datasets in this area. The E2E dataset poses new challenges: (1) its human reference texts show more lexical richness and syntactic variation, including discourse phenomena; (2) generating from this set requires content selection. As such, learning from this dataset promises more natural, varied and less template-like system utterances. We also establish a baseline on this dataset, which illustrates some of the difficulties associated with this data.
Anthology ID:
W17-5525
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
Month:
August
Year:
2017
Address:
Saarbrücken, Germany
Editors:
Kristiina Jokinen, Manfred Stede, David DeVault, Annie Louis
Venue:
SIGDIAL
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SIGDIAL
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
201–206
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-5525
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-5525
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Cite (ACL):
Jekaterina Novikova, Ondřej Dušek, and Verena Rieser. 2017. The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 201–206, Saarbrücken, Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation (Novikova et al., SIGDIAL 2017)
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-5525.pdf
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