Towards Table-to-Text Generation with Pretrained Language Model: A Table Structure Understanding and Text Deliberating Approach

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02071v1
• Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 14:03:26 GMT
• Title: Towards Table-to-Text Generation with Pretrained Language Model: A Table Structure Understanding and Text Deliberating Approach
• Authors: Miao Chen, Xinjiang Lu, Tong Xu, Yanyan Li, Jingbo Zhou, Dejing Dou, Hui Xiong
• Abstract summary: We propose a table structure understanding and text deliberating approach, namely TASD. Specifically, we devise a three-layered multi-head attention network to realize the table-structure-aware text generation model. Our approach can generate faithful and fluent descriptive texts for different types of tables.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Although remarkable progress on the neural table-to-text methods has been made, the generalization issues hinder the applicability of these models due to the limited source tables. Large-scale pretrained language models sound like a promising solution to tackle such issues. However, how to effectively bridge the gap between the structured table and the text input by fully leveraging table information to fuel the pretrained model is still not well explored. Besides, another challenge of integrating the deliberation mechanism into the text-to-text pretrained model for solving the table-to-text task remains seldom studied. In this paper, to implement the table-to-text generation with pretrained language model, we propose a table structure understanding and text deliberating approach, namely TASD. Specifically, we devise a three-layered multi-head attention network to realize the table-structure-aware text generation model with the help of the pretrained language model. Furthermore, a multi-pass decoder framework is adopted to enhance the capability of polishing generated text for table descriptions. The empirical studies, as well as human evaluation, on two public datasets, validate that our approach can generate faithful and fluent descriptive texts for different types of tables.

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