Abstract
E2E NLG Challenge is a shared task on generating restaurant descriptions from sets of key-value pairs. This paper describes the results of our participation in the challenge. We develop a simple, yet effective neural encoder-decoder model which produces fluent restaurant descriptions and outperforms a strong baseline. We further analyze the data provided by the organizers and conclude that the task can also be approached with a template-based model developed in just a few hours.- Anthology ID:
 - W18-6557
 - Volume:
 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
 - Month:
 - November
 - Year:
 - 2018
 - Address:
 - Tilburg University, The Netherlands
 - Venue:
 - INLG
 - SIG:
 - SIGGEN
 - Publisher:
 - Association for Computational Linguistics
 - Note:
 - Pages:
 - 463–471
 - Language:
 - URL:
 - https://aclanthology.org/W18-6557
 - DOI:
 - 10.18653/v1/W18-6557
 - Cite (ACL):
 - Yevgeniy Puzikov and Iryna Gurevych. 2018. E2E NLG Challenge: Neural Models vs. Templates. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 463–471, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Association for Computational Linguistics.
 - Cite (Informal):
 - E2E NLG Challenge: Neural Models vs. Templates (Puzikov & Gurevych, INLG 2018)
 - PDF:
 - https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/W18-6557.pdf
 - Data
 - E2E