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ToTTo: A Controlled Table-To-Text Generation Dataset
Ankur P. Parikh, Xuezhi Wang, Sebastian Gehrmann, Manaal Faruqui, Bhuwan Dhingra, Diyi Yang, Dipanjan Das
We present ToTTo, an open-domain English table-to-text dataset with over 120,000 training examples that proposes a controlled generation task: given a Wikipedia table and a set of highlighted table cells, produce a one-sentence description. To obtain generated targets that are natural but also faithful to the source table, we introduce a dataset construction process where annotators directly revise existing candidate sentences from Wikipedia. We present systematic analyses of our dataset and annotation process as well as results achieved by several state-of-the-art baselines. While usually fluent, existing methods often hallucinate phrases that are not supported by the table, suggesting that this dataset can serve as a useful research benchmark for high-precision conditional text generation.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
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| Data-to-Text Generation | ToTTo | BERT-to-BERT | BLEU | 44 | #3 of 6 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Data-to-Text Generation | ToTTo | BERT-to-BERT | PARENT | 52.6 | #3 of 6 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Data-to-Text Generation | ToTTo | Pointer Generator | BLEU | 41.6 | #4 of 6 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Data-to-Text Generation | ToTTo | Pointer Generator | PARENT | 51.6 | #4 of 6 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Data-to-Text Generation | ToTTo | NCP+CC (Puduppully et al 2019) | BLEU | 19.2 | #5 of 6 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Data-to-Text Generation | ToTTo | NCP+CC (Puduppully et al 2019) | PARENT | 29.2 | #5 of 6 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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