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Generating Descriptions from Structured Data Using a Bifocal Attention Mechanism and Gated Orthogonalization

Authors
Preksha Nema , Shreyas Shetty , Parag Jain , Anirban Laha , Karthik Sankaranarayanan , Mitesh M. Khapra
Published In
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), p. 1539-1550

In this work, we focus on the task of generating natural language descriptions from a structured table of facts containing fields (such as nationality, occupation, etc) and values (such as Indian, actor, director, etc). One simple choice is to treat the table as a sequence of fields and values and then use a standard seq2seq model for this task.