Storytelling from Structured Data and Knowledge Graphs : An NLG Perspective

Abhijit Mishra, Anirban Laha, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Parag Jain, Saravanan Krishnan

Abstract
In this tutorial, we wish to cover the foundational, methodological, and system development aspects of translating structured data (such as data in tabular form) and knowledge bases (such as knowledge graphs) into natural language. The attendees of the tutorial will be able to take away from this tutorial, (1) the basic ideas around how modern NLP and NLG techniques could be applied to describe and summarize textual data in format that is non-linguistic in nature or has some structure, and (2) a few interesting open-ended questions, which could lead to significant research contributions in future. The tutorial aims to convey challenges and nuances in structured data translation, data representation techniques, and domain adaptable solutions for translation of the data into natural language form. Various solutions, starting from traditional rule based/heuristic driven and modern data-driven and ultra-modern deep-neural style architectures will be discussed, followed by a brief discussion on evaluation and quality estimation. A significant portion of the tutorial will be dedicated towards unsupervised, scalable, and adaptable solutions, given that systems for such an important task will never naturally enjoy sustainable large scale domain independent labeled (parallel) data.
Anthology ID:
P19-4009
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts
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July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
Editors:
Preslav Nakov, Alexis Palmer
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
43–48
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-4009
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-4009
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Abhijit Mishra, Anirban Laha, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Parag Jain, and Saravanan Krishnan. 2019. Storytelling from Structured Data and Knowledge Graphs : An NLG Perspective. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts, pages 43–48, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Storytelling from Structured Data and Knowledge Graphs : An NLG Perspective (Mishra et al., ACL 2019)
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