ReTAG: Reasoning Aware Table to Analytic Text Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11826v2
• Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 03:24:37 GMT
• Title: ReTAG: Reasoning Aware Table to Analytic Text Generation
• Authors: Deepanway Ghosal and Preksha Nema and Aravindan Raghuveer
• Abstract summary: ReTAG is a table and reasoning aware model that uses vector-quantization to infuse different types of analytical reasoning into the output. We extend (and open source 35.6K analytical, 55.9k descriptive instances) the ToTTo, InfoTabs datasets with the reasoning categories used in each reference sentences.
• Score: 12.603569641254417
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The task of table summarization involves generating text that both succinctly and accurately represents the table or a specific set of highlighted cells within a table. While significant progress has been made in table to text generation techniques, models still mostly generate descriptive summaries, which reiterates the information contained within the table in sentences. Through analysis of popular table to text benchmarks (ToTTo (Parikh et al., 2020 and InfoTabs (Gupta et al., 2020) we observe that in order to generate the ideal summary, multiple types of reasoning is needed coupled with access to knowledge beyond the scope of the table. To address this gap, we propose ReTAG, a table and reasoning aware model that uses vector-quantization to infuse different types of analytical reasoning into the output. ReTAG achieves 2.2%, 2.9% improvement on the PARENT metric in the relevant slice of ToTTo and InfoTabs for the table to text generation task over state of the art baselines. Through human evaluation, we observe that output from ReTAG is upto 12% more faithful and analytical compared to a strong table-aware model. To the best of our knowledge, ReTAG is the first model that can controllably use multiple reasoning methods within a structure-aware sequence to sequence model to surpass state of the art performance in multiple table to text tasks. We extend (and open source 35.6K analytical, 55.9k descriptive instances) the ToTTo, InfoTabs datasets with the reasoning categories used in each reference sentences.

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