Textually Summarising Incomplete Data

Stephanie Inglis, Ehud Reiter, Somayajulu Sripada


Abstract
Many data-to-text NLG systems work with data sets which are incomplete, ie some of the data is missing. We have worked with data journalists to understand how they describe incomplete data, and are building NLG algorithms based on these insights. A pilot evaluation showed mixed results, and highlighted several areas where we need to improve our system.
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W17-3535
Volume:
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Editors:
Jose M. Alonso, Alberto Bugarín, Ehud Reiter
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INLG
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SIGGEN
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
228–232
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-3535
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-3535
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Stephanie Inglis, Ehud Reiter, and Somayajulu Sripada. 2017. Textually Summarising Incomplete Data. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 228–232, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Textually Summarising Incomplete Data (Inglis et al., INLG 2017)
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