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Main Authors: Madsack, Andreas, Heininger, Johanna, Schneider, Adela, Chen, Ching-Yi, Eckard, Christian, Weißgraeber, Robert
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16135
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author Madsack, Andreas
Heininger, Johanna
Schneider, Adela
Chen, Ching-Yi
Eckard, Christian
Weißgraeber, Robert
author_facet Madsack, Andreas
Heininger, Johanna
Schneider, Adela
Chen, Ching-Yi
Eckard, Christian
Weißgraeber, Robert
contents One approach for multilingual data-to-text generation is to translate grammatical configurations upfront from the source language into each target language. These configurations are then used by a surface realizer and in document planning stages to generate output. In this paper, we describe a rule-based NLG implementation of this approach where the configuration is translated by Neural Machine Translation (NMT) combined with a one-time human review, and introduce a cross-language grammar dependency model to create a multilingual NLG system that generates text from the source data, scaling the generation phase without a human in the loop. Additionally, we introduce a method for human post-editing evaluation on the automatically translated text. Our evaluation on the SportSett:Basketball dataset shows that our NLG system performs well, underlining its grammatical correctness in translation tasks.
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spellingShingle Evaluation of NMT-Assisted Grammar Transfer for a Multi-Language Configurable Data-to-Text System
Madsack, Andreas
Heininger, Johanna
Schneider, Adela
Chen, Ching-Yi
Eckard, Christian
Weißgraeber, Robert
Computation and Language
One approach for multilingual data-to-text generation is to translate grammatical configurations upfront from the source language into each target language. These configurations are then used by a surface realizer and in document planning stages to generate output. In this paper, we describe a rule-based NLG implementation of this approach where the configuration is translated by Neural Machine Translation (NMT) combined with a one-time human review, and introduce a cross-language grammar dependency model to create a multilingual NLG system that generates text from the source data, scaling the generation phase without a human in the loop. Additionally, we introduce a method for human post-editing evaluation on the automatically translated text. Our evaluation on the SportSett:Basketball dataset shows that our NLG system performs well, underlining its grammatical correctness in translation tasks.
title Evaluation of NMT-Assisted Grammar Transfer for a Multi-Language Configurable Data-to-Text System
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16135