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RotoWire

Introduced by Sam Wiseman et al. in Challenges in Data-to-Document Generation1 Jan 2017 archive 2025-07-28

This dataset consists of (human-written) NBA basketball game summaries aligned with their corresponding box- and line-scores. Summaries taken from rotowire.com are referred to as the "rotowire" data. There are 4853 distinct rotowire summaries, covering NBA games played between 1/1/2014 and 3/29/2017; some games have multiple summaries. The summaries have been randomly split into training, validation, and test sets consisting of 3398, 727, and 728 summaries, respectively.

Source: Challenges in Data-to-Document Generation Image Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.08052v1.pdf

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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First row (archive order)PaperCode
Data-to-Text Generation RotoWire HierarchicalEncoder + NR + IR BLEU 17.96 Improving Encoder by Auxiliary Supervision Tasks for... liang8qi/data2textwithauxiliarysupervision 6 Compare
Data-to-Text Generation RotoWire (Relation Generation) SeqPlan Precision 97.6 Data-to-text Generation with Variational Sequential Planning ratishsp/data2text-seq-plan-py 6 Compare
Data-to-Text Generation RotoWire (Content Ordering) Hierarchical Transformer Encoder + conditional copy DLD 18.90% A Hierarchical Model for Data-to-Text Generation KaijuML/data-to-text-hierarchical 5 Compare
Data-to-Text Generation Rotowire (Content Selection) Hierarchical Transformer Encoder + conditional copy Precision 39.47% A Hierarchical Model for Data-to-Text Generation KaijuML/data-to-text-hierarchical 5 Compare
Table-to-Text Generation RotoWire HierarchicalEncoder + NR + IR Content Ordering 25.30 Improving Encoder by Auxiliary Supervision Tasks for... liang8qi/data2textwithauxiliarysupervision 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

7 shown of 7 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 65. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • RotoWire (Relation Generation)
  • Rotowire (Content Selection)
  • RotoWire (Content Ordering)
  • RotoWire

4 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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