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	"abstract": "It is unfair to expect neural data-to-text to produce high quality output when there are gaps between system input data and information contained in the training text. Thomson et al. (2020) identify and narrow information gaps in Rotowire, a popular data-to-text dataset. In this paper, we describe a study which finds that a state-of-the-art neural data-to-text system produces higher quality output, according to the information extraction (IE) based metrics, when additional input data is carefully selected from this newly available source. It remains to be shown, however, whether IE metrics used in this study correlate well with humans in judging text quality.",
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	"text": "It is unfair to expect neural data-to-text to produce high quality output when there are gaps between system input data and information contained in the training text. Thomson et al. (2020) identify and narrow information gaps in Rotowire, a popular data-to-text dataset. In this paper, we describe a study which finds that a state-of-the-art neural data-to-text system produces higher quality output, according to the information extraction (IE) based metrics, when additional input data is carefully selected from this newly available source. It remains to be shown, however, whether IE metrics used in this study correlate well with humans in judging text quality.",
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	"text": "The ecological validity (de Vries et al., 2020) of data-to-text tasks requires that tasks resemble, as closely as possible, real-world problems. Only if this is the case can neural data-to-text solutions be operationally deployed with confidence. In the context of data-to-text, one of the issues with ecological validity is that most real-world tasks involve sizeable input data, with longer and more complex texts than are found in 'toy-sized' datasets. We must be able to see a path to a machine learning task which closely resembles a real-world scenario and allows us to investigate important research questions. We should aim to improve both the dataset and the task continuously. Generating summaries of basketball games from tabled data with the Rotowire dataset, as introduced by Wiseman et al. (2017a) for the English language, moves us closer to an ecologically valid data-to-text task.",
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	"text": "The original Rotowire dataset has been found to contain gaps between the information in the input data, and the information content of the training text. This makes the task unfair for evaluating neural data-to-text systems that are required to generate high quality output text, with hardly any factual errors. The SportSett:Basketball dataset (Thomson et al., 2020) addresses these data issues by fixing information gaps in the input data, whilst maintaining the original human-authored texts. Given that there is now at least an order of magnitude more data per game, we should consider which subset of data to train the system on, and what if any pre-processing should be preformed.",
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	"text": "We added some of this newly available data to an existing state-of-the-art neural data-to-text system (Rebuffel et al., 2020) and found improvement across a range of metrics. We used this system since, at the time of writing, it is one of the most recent, best performing and easiest to configure. We also discuss here which types of data could be added in the future, as well as some difficulties that may be encountered in doing so.",
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	"text": "Many systems have been designed and evaluated using the Rotowire dataset (Wiseman et al., 2017a; Puduppully et al., 2019a,b; Wang, 2019; Gong et al., 2019; Iso et al., 2019; Rebuffel et al., 2020) . Most of these works focus on adjusting the architecture of the system whilst using similar input data. Gong et al. (2019) is a notable exception, as their architecture change allows box score and other data from previous games in their input. This was, however, still data from the original Rotowire dataset.",
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	"text": "Some works have attempted to better align data to text in other datasets, with techniques such as semantic control (Du\u0161ek et al., 2019) . For Rotowire, this has been investigated by Wang (2019) , which aims to prevent generation of sentences not grounded in the data. With this approach, some of the most common sentence types from the human narrative, such as the subsequent opponents of each team, are not generated. This difference is crucial when determining ecological validity of the task. The aim is to replicate the human author in the act of writing a summary of the basketball game, including its full narrative structure.",
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	"text": "3 Information Gaps in Data-to-Text Shown in Figure 1 is an example textual summary from the Rotowire dataset. An example partial box score is shown in Table 1 . There are numerous cases where information conveyed by the text is not present in the same form in the box score or other game data. These information gaps should be investigated in order to improve the machine learning task.",
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	"text": "We performed a machine-assisted corpus analysis, using the spaCy syntactic parser (Honnibal, 2015) to group sentences which only differ by entity. We do this using an abstraction process where we replace named entities with special tokens comprised of their part-of-speech and entity label. Some manual rules are added to the parser to handle domain specific syntax. By this process the sentence (S01 from Figure 1 ) 'The Atlanta Hawks (41-9) beat the Washington Wizards (31-19) 105-96 on Wednesday.', is transformed to 'PROPN-ORG (X-Y) beat the PROPN-ORG (X-Y) X-Y on NOUN-DATE.'.",
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	"text": "We then count and read these abstract sentence types to find statements common to the narrative, but with attribute types not present in the data. For example, sentences with the same abstract form as S1 occur 26 times in the training corpus, with more than 800 further sentences of a similar form (using defeat instead of beat, or also including the location/stadium). It is the most common type of thing to say in the opening sentence of these summaries (which teams played, when, and where). There are, however, important attributes in these sentences which are not provided by the original Rotowire data. When generating game summaries, systems will often hallucinate these attributes as they deem it probable that such language is included in the summary, but the attribute is not available to the copy attention mechanism. In the case of our above example, the day of the week is not available in the data. The stadium in which the game was played, as well as the city and/or state within which the stadium stands, are also not available despite being common in variants of this opening sentence.",
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	"text": "In S02 and S11 from Figure 1 we notice that the games being discussed are not the game being summarised, they are previous or subsequent games for these teams. This is common in the training corpus as well. Handling data for previous games is complex (see subsection 3.2). However, data for the subsequent game can be easily obtained provided that a yearly partition scheme like that proposed by Thomson et al. (2020) is used. If such a partition scheme is not used, we cannot guarantee that a previous or subsequent game was not used to condition the system during training.",
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	"text": "We also see in S09, a mention of the conference/division structure of the league. These are known sets, which can change over time but are fixed within a season. In the NBA there are 2 conferences, each with 3 divisions of 5 teams.",
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	"text": "In subsection 3.1 we described adding data which easily fit our chosen encoder. It is worth noting, however, that there is much more data available in the SportSett database, and it can be presented to our neural system in different formats. One argument is that we should take all the atomic data, along with, perhaps, its structure, then create an encoder which accepts data in that form. The atomic entities are players, which are grouped into teams, divisions, conferences and leagues. The atomic events are plays, the act of one or more players acquiring countable statistics. See Thomson et al. (2020) Section 2.1 for a more detailed analysis of entities and dimensions in this dataset. The NLG system would then be tasked with learning both the language, as well as the underlying mathematics for the statistics. Whilst we could include all atomic events as training data, this would greatly increase the size of each input sample. We could alternatively in-clude carefully selected aggregated forms of data, although creating rules to determine what should be included may be time consuming, and likely domain specific. There would also be many combinations of these derived attributes. The key question is should all possible attributes which are to be realised be available to copy attention, or, should all attributes be transformable from the atomic data? An approach combining these different types of input data could also be used.",
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	"text": "Examples of aggregated forms of data could be anything from the percentage of shots which were successful for a player/team, to the average points a player has scored over an arbitrary span of games. One common inclusion in summaries is the aggregated statistic 'double-double' 2 , where players are said to have recorded double-digits in exactly two of points, rebounds, assists, blocks and steals. Mentions of previous games in the summary frequently use phrases in the form 'X of his/their last Y'. This can be seen in S05 of Figure 1 where we learn that Al Holford has scored greater than 20 points, and recorded more than 10 rebounds in exactly 3 of his last 5 games. There would be an impractical quantity of combinations for 'X out of Y' based statements, even if Y had a maximum of 5-10. Other similar aggregations, such as 'scored a combined 60 points over his last 3 games.' compound this problem.",
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	"text": "The information extraction (IE) metrics of Relation Generation (RG), Content Selection (CS), and Content Ordering (CO), have been used extensively to compare systems operating on the Rotowire based datasets. These metrics are also key to the system design philosophy of Wiseman et al. (2017a) which aims to \"[exploit] the fact that post-hoc information extraction is significantly easier than generation itself.\" All of these metrics are based on IE models which learn to link statements in the text to tuples in the data. These models are trained on a corpus which has been automatically annotated using rules. Names or numbers in the text are linked to the possible data tuples which could represent them. During evaluation, tuples are predicted for the test text summaries, with a name, value and a type, e.g. 'Atlanta-96-TEAM-PTS'. These predicted tuples can be compared with the tuples in the data in order to determine whether facts predicted from the text match those in the data. For example, if the fact extracted from the text is 'Atlanta-96-TEAM-PTS', but in the data we see 'Atlanta-105-TEAM-PTS', then based on the match of both name and type, we can determine that the number is wrong.",
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	"text": "\u2022 Extend the annotation logic such that it can detect the additional entities and attributes we added in subsection 3.1. For example, days of the week for both the current game and the subsequent game for each team.",
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	"text": "We trained IE models following the general procedure proposed by (Wiseman et al., 2017b) . We trained with different random seeds and learning rates, then chose the best 3 LSTM and the best 3 Convolutional models to ensemble. We then used the model ensemble, as well as BLEU-4 (Papineni et al., 2002) , to evaluate the NLG system itself. Table 2 shows the results of our evaluation. We find a statistically significant difference (p < 0.005) for all information extraction based metrics (RG, CS-PREC, CS-REC, and CO) when we add the additional information as described in subsection 3.1. Information extraction based metrics increased in all cases when adding data, regardless of earlystopping method. Whilst BLEU scores also appeared to increase, we did not find the changes in them to be statistically significant. This is not surprising given that BLEU is known to not correlate for NLG (Reiter and Belz, 2009; Reiter, 2018) , and even in machine translation it only correlates when differences are large (Mathur et al., 2020) .",
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