The E2E NLG Challenge: A Tale of Two Systems

Charese Smiley, Elnaz Davoodi, Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder


Abstract
This paper presents the two systems we entered into the 2017 E2E NLG Challenge: TemplGen, a templated-based system and SeqGen, a neural network-based system. Through the automatic evaluation, SeqGen achieved competitive results compared to the template-based approach and to other participating systems as well. In addition to the automatic evaluation, in this paper we present and discuss the human evaluation results of our two systems.
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W18-6558
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Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
Month:
November
Year:
2018
Address:
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Editors:
Emiel Krahmer, Albert Gatt, Martijn Goudbeek
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INLG
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SIGGEN
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
472–477
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-6558
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6558
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Charese Smiley, Elnaz Davoodi, Dezhao Song, and Frank Schilder. 2018. The E2E NLG Challenge: A Tale of Two Systems. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 472–477, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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The E2E NLG Challenge: A Tale of Two Systems (Smiley et al., INLG 2018)
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