@inproceedings{perez-beltrachini-lapata-2018-bootstrapping,
    title = "Bootstrapping Generators from Noisy Data",
    author = "Perez-Beltrachini, Laura  and
      Lapata, Mirella",
    editor = "Walker, Marilyn  and
      Ji, Heng  and
      Stent, Amanda",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2018",
    address = "New Orleans, Louisiana",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest_wac_2008/N18-1137/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/N18-1137",
    pages = "1516--1527",
    abstract = "A core step in statistical data-to-text generation concerns learning correspondences between structured data representations (e.g., facts in a database) and associated texts. In this paper we aim to bootstrap generators from large scale datasets where the data (e.g., DBPedia facts) and related texts (e.g., Wikipedia abstracts) are loosely aligned. We tackle this challenging task by introducing a special-purpose content selection mechanism. We use multi-instance learning to automatically discover correspondences between data and text pairs and show how these can be used to enhance the content signal while training an encoder-decoder architecture. Experimental results demonstrate that models trained with content-specific objectives improve upon a vanilla encoder-decoder which solely relies on soft attention."
}