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E2E NLG Challenge: Neural Models vs. Templates

1 Nov 2018WS 2018 11archive 2025-07-28

Yevgeniy Puzikov, Iryna Gurevych

E2E NLG Challenge is a shared task on generating restaurant descriptions from sets of key-value pairs. This paper describes the results of our participation in the challenge. We develop a simple, yet effective neural encoder-decoder model which produces fluent restaurant descriptions and outperforms a strong baseline. We further analyze the data provided by the organizers and conclude that the task can also be approached with a template-based model developed in just a few hours.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Data-to-Text Generation E2E NLG Challenge TUDA BLEU 56.57 #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Data-to-Text Generation E2E NLG Challenge TUDA CIDEr 1.8206 #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Data-to-Text Generation E2E NLG Challenge TUDA METEOR 45.29 #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Data-to-Text Generation E2E NLG Challenge TUDA NIST 7.4544 #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Data-to-Text Generation E2E NLG Challenge TUDA ROUGE-L 66.14 #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report

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