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"text": "Natural language generation from structured data, or data-to-text (Kukich, 1983; McKeown, 1985) , is the task of generating natural language text conditioned on source content provided in the form of structured data such as a table, graph etc. Some example applications include task oriented dialog (Wen et al., 2015) , summarizing weather forecasts (Sripada et al.; Goldberg et al., 1994) , etc.",
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"text": "In this work we study the applicability of large scale text-to-text transfer learning learning for this task. In particular, we focus on pre-training in the form of the \"Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer\" (T5) models released by Raffel et al. (2019) . Finetuning T5 achieves state-of-the-art results on diverse benchmarks spanning task oriented dialogue (MultiWoz), tables-to-text (ToTTo) and graph-totext (WebNLG). Empirical results further demonstrate the following:",
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"text": "Data-to-Text Early research on data-to-text focused on rule-based methods (Reiter and Dale, 2000) , while recent works have favored neural approaches (Wen et al., 2015) . Liu et al. (2018) generate text by conditioning language models on tables, Puduppully et al. (2019) explicitly model entities and Marcheggiani and Perez-Beltrachini (2018) encode structured data using graph convolutional networks. Ferreira et al. 2019and Moryossef et al. (2019) find that neural pipelined approaches perform better than end-to-end models.",
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"text": "The evaluation is done using BLEU and METEOR (Lavie and Agarwal, 2007) , similar to (Ferreira et al., 2019) . The test set is split into two partsseen and unseen. The examples in the unseen set are drawn from domains not present in the training set, along with roughly 100 new predicates. Some of the baselines we compare with are: \u2022 Melbourne, a neural encoder-decoder approach, which scored the highest in the automatic evaluation of the WebNLG challenge (Gardent et al., 2017) . The model relies on delexicalization, where entities are replaced with placeholders.",
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"text": "\u2022 DualEnc (Zhao et al., 2020) , the current stateof-the-art system. It consists of a graph convolution network based planning model which first predicts the order of the triples, followed by a separate LSTM with attention and copy mechanism model to generate the text. To train the planning model, the approach relies on extra annotations for the triple ordering. Such annotations are can be expensive and time consuming to obtain, especially for large, complex inputs.",
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