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Approach: They propose an automatic evaluation metric to assess to what extent models that verbalise RDF graphs produce text that contains mentions of entities occurring in the input.
Outcome: The proposed metric can be used to assess to what extent generation models verbalise RDF graphs produce text that contains mentions of the entities occurring in the input.

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