Learning Better Representation for Tables by Self-Supervised Tasks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07606v3
• Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 06:36:30 GMT
• Title: Learning Better Representation for Tables by Self-Supervised Tasks
• Authors: Liang Li, Can Ma, Yinliang Yue, Linjun Shou and Dayong Hu
• Abstract summary: We propose two self-supervised tasks, Number Ordering and Significance Ordering, to help to learn better table representation. We test our methods on the widely used dataset ROTOWIRE which consists of NBA game statistic and related news.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Table-to-text generation aims at automatically generating natural text to help people to conveniently obtain the important information in tables. Although neural models for table-to-text have achieved remarkable progress, some problems still overlooked. The first is that the values recorded in many tables are mostly numbers in practice. The existing approaches do not do special treatment for these, and still regard these as words in natural language text. Secondly, the target texts in training dataset may contain redundant information or facts do not exist in the input tables. These may give wrong supervision signals to some methods based on content selection and planning and auxiliary supervision. To solve these problems, we propose two self-supervised tasks, Number Ordering and Significance Ordering, to help to learn better table representation. The former works on the column dimension to help to incorporate the size property of numbers into table representation. The latter acts on row dimension and help to learn a significance-aware table representation. We test our methods on the widely used dataset ROTOWIRE which consists of NBA game statistic and related news. The experimental results demonstrate that the model trained together with these two self-supervised tasks can generate text that contains more salient and well-organized facts, even without modeling context selection and planning. And we achieve the state-of-the-art performance on automatic metrics.

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