README.md

WebNLG Dataset Summary

This repository presents the evolution of the WebNLG corpus.

Each folder contains the same data in two formats: xml and json.

1. release_v2

   It is the latest release.

   It includes release_v1 and test data (seen categories) from the WebNLG challenge.

   We split it into train/dev/test, ensuring equal representation of DBpedia categories and tripleset sizes.

   Tree shapes and types (sibling, chain, mixed) were added for each input RDF tree.

2. release_v2_constrained

   It has the same data as release_v2.

   The split into train/dev/test is more challenging. That split ensures that a triple occurring in train/dev is not present in test (more info in the INLG 2018 paper below).

3. release_v1

   It matches Final Release (Larger Dataset) on the challenge website.

   It doesn't include test data (seen categories) from the challenge.

   No split into train/dev/test was provided.

   Covers 15 DBpedia categories.

4. webnlg_challenge_2017

   Contains the data used in the WebNLG Challenge 2017.

   Covers 10 DBpedia categories (the City category only partially).

Documentation

http://webnlg.loria.fr/pages/docs.html

Publications

• Creating Training Corpora for NLG Micro-Planners. C. Gardent, A. Shimorina, S. Narayan, L. Perez-Beltrachini. ACL 2017.

• The WebNLG Challenge: Generating Text from RDF Data. C. Gardent, A. Shimorina, S. Narayan, L. Perez-Beltrachini. INLG 2017.

• Handling Rare Items in Data-to-Text Generation. A. Shimorina, C. Gardent. INLG 2018 (to appear).

Citing

• If you use the WebNLG corpus, cite

@InProceedings{gardent2017creating,
  author = 	"Gardent, Claire
		and Shimorina, Anastasia
		and Narayan, Shashi
		and Perez-Beltrachini, Laura",
  title = 	"Creating Training Corpora for NLG Micro-Planners",
  booktitle = 	"Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)    ",
  year = 	"2017",
  publisher = 	"Association for Computational Linguistics",
  pages = 	"179--188",
  location = 	"Vancouver, Canada",
  doi = 	"10.18653/v1/P17-1017",
  url = 	"http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P17-1017"
}

• If you use release_v2_constrained in particular, cite

@InProceedings{shimorina2018handling,
  author = 	"Shimorina, Anastasia
		and Gardent, Claire",
  title = 	"Handling Rare Items in Data-to-Text Generation",
  booktitle = 	"Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation",
  year = 	"2018",
  publisher = 	"Association for Computational Linguistics",
  location = 	"Tilburg, The Netherlands"
}

License

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Contact

• webnlg2017@inria.fr
• or create an issue in this repository