Content type profiling of data-to-text generation datasets.

Upadhyay, Ashish; Massie, Stewart

Abstract

Data-to-Text Generation (D2T) problems can be considered as a stream of time-stamped events with a text summary being produced for each. The problem becomes more challenging when event summaries contain complex insights derived from multiple records either within an event, or across several events from the event stream. It is important to understand the different types of content present in the summary to help us better define the system requirements so that we can build better systems. In this paper, we propose a novel typology of content types, that we use to classify the contents of event summaries. Using the typology, a profile of a dataset is generated as the distribution of the aggregated content types which captures the specific characteristics of the dataset and gives a measure of the complexity present in the problem. Through extensive experiments on different D2T datasets we demonstrate that neural generative systems specifically struggle to generate contents of complex types, highlighting the need for improved D2T techniques.

Citation

UPADHYAY, A. and MASSIE, S. 2022. Content type profiling of data-to-text generation datasets. In N. Calzolari, C.-R. Huang, H. Kim. et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th International conference on computational linguistics (COLING 2022), 12-17 October 2022, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. Stroudsburg, PA: International Committee on Computational Linguistics [online], 29(1), pages 5770–5782. Available from: https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.pdf

• Conference Name: 29th International conference on computational linguistics (COLING 2022)
• Conference Location: Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
• Start Date: Oct 12, 2022
• End Date: Oct 17, 2022
• Acceptance Date: Aug 15, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Oct 12, 2022
• Publication Date: Oct 31, 2022
• Deposit Date: Aug 4, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 4, 2023
• Publisher: International Committee on Computational Linguistics
• Volume: 29
• Pages: 5770–5782
• Series Title: International conference on computational linguistics
• Series Number: 29
• Series ISSN: 2951-2093
• Book Title: Proceedings of the 29th International conference on computational linguistics (COLING 2022)
• Keywords: Data-to-text generation (D2T); Problems; Typology; Content type typology; Datasets; Generation systems
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1764080
• Publisher URL: https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2022.coling-1/