Tree-of-Text: A Tree-based Prompting Framework for Table-to-Text Generation in the Sports Domain

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26501v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:05:18 GMT
• Title: Tree-of-Text: A Tree-based Prompting Framework for Table-to-Text Generation in the Sports Domain
• Abstract summary: Tree-of-Text is a tree-structured prompting framework that guides large language models through a three-stage generation process.<n> Experiments show that our method outperforms existing methods on ShuttleSet+, leads in RG and CO metrics on RotoWire-FG, and excels in CS and CO on MLB with roughly 40% of the time and cost of Chain-of-Table.
• Score: 15.833746980927195
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Generating sports game reports from structured tables is a complex table-to-text task that demands both precise data interpretation and fluent narrative generation. Traditional model-based approaches require large, annotated datasets, while prompt-based methods using large language models (LLMs) often struggle with hallucination due to weak table comprehension. To overcome these challenges, we propose Tree-of-Text, a tree-structured prompting framework that guides LLMs through a three-stage generation process: (1) Content Planning, where relevant operations and arguments are selected from the input tables; (2) Operation Execution, which breaks down large tables into manageable sub-tables; and (3) Content Generation, where short textual outputs are merged and rewritten into a cohesive report. Experiments show that our method outperforms existing methods on ShuttleSet+, leads in RG and CO metrics on RotoWire-FG, and excels in CS and CO on MLB with roughly 40% of the time and cost of Chain-of-Table. These results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of Tree-of-Text and suggest a promising direction for prompt-based table-to-text generation in the sports domain.

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