Challenge: Existing studies on logical data-to-text generation rely on neural language models to generate the final table description, but they have difficulty working out key entities in the description.
Approach: They propose a symbolic reasoning framework that reasons out each entity in the table description with a table-compatible programming language.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms existing methods on three datasets and three backbones with an absolute improvement of 5.7%11.5% on SP-Acc.

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