Partially-Aligned Data-to-Text Generation with Distant Supervision

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01268v1
• Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 03:18:52 GMT
• Title: Partially-Aligned Data-to-Text Generation with Distant Supervision
• Authors: Zihao Fu, Bei Shi, Wai Lam, Lidong Bing, Zhiyuan Liu
• Abstract summary: We propose a new generation task called Partially-Aligned Data-to-Text Generation (PADTG) It is more practical since it utilizes automatically annotated data for training and thus considerably expands the application domains. Our framework outperforms all baseline models as well as verify the feasibility of utilizing partially-aligned data.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The Data-to-Text task aims to generate human-readable text for describing some given structured data enabling more interpretability. However, the typical generation task is confined to a few particular domains since it requires well-aligned data which is difficult and expensive to obtain. Using partially-aligned data is an alternative way of solving the dataset scarcity problem. This kind of data is much easier to obtain since it can be produced automatically. However, using this kind of data induces the over-generation problem posing difficulties for existing models, which tends to add unrelated excerpts during the generation procedure. In order to effectively utilize automatically annotated partially-aligned datasets, we extend the traditional generation task to a refined task called Partially-Aligned Data-to-Text Generation (PADTG) which is more practical since it utilizes automatically annotated data for training and thus considerably expands the application domains. To tackle this new task, we propose a novel distant supervision generation framework. It firstly estimates the input data's supportiveness for each target word with an estimator and then applies a supportiveness adaptor and a rebalanced beam search to harness the over-generation problem in the training and generation phases respectively. We also contribute a partially-aligned dataset (The data and source code of this paper can be obtained from https://github.com/fuzihaofzh/distant_supervision_nlg by sampling sentences from Wikipedia and automatically extracting corresponding KB triples for each sentence from Wikidata. The experimental results show that our framework outperforms all baseline models as well as verify the feasibility of utilizing partially-aligned data.

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