64 - Report Writing
Writing sentences based on structured data is also called Data-to-Text Generation.
Writing sentences based on structured data is also called Data-to-Text Generation. The task is to generate content without explicitly modelling what to say and in what order. The task can exist of two steps. The first step is to define what parts of the structured data should have the most attention and in what sequence they should occur. The second step is to generate the content, while taking the first step into account.
An example is an automatic summary of the financial results of a Business Intelligence (BI) dashboard. Or in sport broadcasting; generating a match report containing statistics on NBA basketball games.
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