Papers with table-to-text generation
TaKG: A New Dataset for Paragraph-level Table-to-Text Generation Enhanced with Knowledge Graphs (2022.findings-aacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing table-to-text generation benchmarks have some limitations, such as E2E and ToTTo focusing on singlesentence generation tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a new table-to-text generation dataset called TaKG that uses a set of knowledge graphs to enhance table input. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models for short-text generation tasks and shows reliable performance on long-text generated across a variety of metrics. |
Investigating Table-to-Text Generation Capabilities of Large Language Models in Real-World Information Seeking Scenarios (2023.emnlp-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing table-to-text generation techniques that transform complex tabular data into comprehensible narratives are lacking in real-world applications. |
| Approach: | They investigate the table-to-text capabilities of different LLMs using four datasets within two real-world information seeking scenarios. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models can generate table-to-text data in two real-world information seeking scenarios and perform better than existing models. |
OpenT2T: An Open-Source Toolkit for Table-to-Text Generation (2024.emnlp-demo)
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Haowei Zhang, Shengyun Si, Yilun Zhao, Lujing Xie, Zhijian Xu, Lyuhao Chen, Linyong Nan, Pengcheng Wang, Xiangru Tang, Arman Cohan
| Challenge: | Existing methods for table-to-text generation are limited and benchmarked on a limited number of datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose to use open-source tools to reproduce existing large language models for performance comparison and expedite the development of new models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed toolkit compares existing large language models on 9 table-to-text generation datasets and maintains a leaderboard to provide insights for future work. |
QTSumm: Query-Focused Summarization over Tabular Data (2023.emnlp-main)
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Yilun Zhao, Zhenting Qi, Linyong Nan, Boyu Mi, Yixin Liu, Weijin Zou, Simeng Han, Ruizhe Chen, Xiangru Tang, Yumo Xu, Dragomir Radev, Arman Cohan
| Challenge: | Existing text generation systems that can provide accurate table summaries can facilitate more efficient access to relevant data insights. |
| Approach: | They propose a query-focused task where text generation models have to perform human-like reasoning and analysis over the given table to generate a tailored table summary. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves existing baselines on table-to-text generation and large language models by concatenating generated facts to the model input. |
Few-Shot Table-to-Text Generation with Prototype Memory (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Neural table-to-text generation models are data-hungry and require large amounts of training data to learn the mapping between tables and texts. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for table-to-text generation under the few-shot scenario that uses retrieved prototypes and a prototype selector to bridge the structural gap between tables and texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly improves the model performance on three benchmark datasets with state-of-the-art models. |
Controlling Text Edition by Changing Answers of Specific Questions (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | In many situations, we need to change specific content in a document. |
| Approach: | They propose a task where we take a long text, a question, and a target answer as input and output a minimally modified text so that it fits the target answer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed task is based on the existing dataset WIKIBIO and tests on a test set. |
DETQUS: Decomposition-Enhanced Transformers for QUery-focused Summarization (2025.naacl-long)
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Yasir Khan, Xinlei Wu, Sangpil Youm, Justin Ho, Aryaan Mehboob Shaikh, Jairo Garciga, Rohan Sharma, Bonnie J Dorr
| Challenge: | Query-focused tabular summarization is an emerging task in table-to-text generation . traditional transformer-based approaches face challenges due to token limitations and the complexity of reasoning over large tables. |
| Approach: | They propose a system that leverages tabular decomposition alongside a fine-tuned encoder-decoder model to improve summarization accuracy. |
| Outcome: | a new system outperforms the state-of-the-art REFACTOR model in a Query-focused tabular summarization task . the proposed system achieves a ROUGE-L score of 0.4437, outperforming the previous state- of-the art model . |
TableGPT: Few-shot Table-to-Text Generation with Table Structure Reconstruction and Content Matching (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies show that pre-trained language models can produce informative and fluent text with the help of large-scale datasets, but they suffer insufficient learning problem with limited training data. |
| Approach: | They propose to use table transformation module with template to rewrite structured table in natural language as input for GPT-2 and exploit multi-task learning with two auxiliary tasks to preserve table’s structural information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing systems on most few-shot settings. |
Table-to-Text Generation with Effective Hierarchical Encoder on Three Dimensions (Row, Column and Time) (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Seq2Seq models for table-to-text generation have achieved remarkable progress, but modeling table representation in one dimension is inadequate. |
| Approach: | They propose to model each table cell considering other records in the same row and to enrich table’s representation by modeling each cell in context of other cells in the similar column or with historical data respectively. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline and state-of-the-art models on ROTOWIRE, a benchmark dataset of NBA basketball games. |
Prefix-Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Fine-tuning is the prevalent paradigm for using large pretrained language models for downstream tasks, but it requires updating and storing all the parameters of the LM. |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight alternative to fine-tuning for natural language generation tasks that optimizes a sequence of continuous vectors, which they call the prefix. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms fine-tuning in the full data setting and extrapolates better to examples with topics that are unseen during training. |
Towards Table-to-Text Generation with Pretrained Language Model: A Table Structure Understanding and Text Deliberating Approach (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Currently, the generalization issues hinder the applicability of neural table-to-text models due to the limited source tables. |
| Approach: | They propose a table-structureaware text generation model with pretrained language model and propose TASD to bridge the gap between the structured table and text input. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model bridges the gap between the structured table and text input and generates accurate and fluent descriptive texts on two public datasets. |