E2E NLG Challenge: Neural Models vs. Templates

Yevgeniy Puzikov, Iryna Gurevych


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
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Pages:
463–471
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-6557
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6557
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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.
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E2E NLG Challenge: Neural Models vs. Templates (Puzikov & Gurevych, INLG 2018)
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