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A Hierarchical Model for Data-to-Text Generation

20 Dec 2019arXiv:1912.10011archive 2025-07-28

Clément Rebuffel, Laure Soulier, Geoffrey Scoutheeten, Patrick Gallinari

Transcribing structured data into natural language descriptions has emerged as a challenging task, referred to as "data-to-text". These structures generally regroup multiple elements, as well as their attributes. Most attempts rely on translation encoder-decoder methods which linearize elements into a sequence. This however loses most of the structure contained in the data. In this work, we propose to overpass this limitation with a hierarchical model that encodes the data-structure at the element-level and the structure level. Evaluations on RotoWire show the effectiveness of our model w.r.t. qualitative and quantitative metrics.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Data-to-Text Generation RotoWire Hierarchical transformer encoder + conditional copy BLEU 17.50 #2 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Data-to-Text Generation RotoWire (Content Ordering) Hierarchical Transformer Encoder + conditional copy BLEU 17.50 #1 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Data-to-Text Generation RotoWire (Content Ordering) Hierarchical Transformer Encoder + conditional copy DLD 18.90% #1 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Data-to-Text Generation RotoWire (Relation Generation) Hierarchical Transformer Encoder + conditional copy Precision 89.46% #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Data-to-Text Generation RotoWire (Relation Generation) Hierarchical Transformer Encoder + conditional copy count 21.17 #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Data-to-Text Generation Rotowire (Content Selection) Hierarchical Transformer Encoder + conditional copy Precision 39.47% #1 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Data-to-Text Generation Rotowire (Content Selection) Hierarchical Transformer Encoder + conditional copy Recall 51.64% #1 of 5 Archive leaderboard report

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