WebNLG+ Challenge 2020

The repository with baselines, submissions, evaluation scripts and results from the 2nd version of the WebNLG+ Challenge 2020.

Challenge Overview

• Webpage: https://webnlg-challenge.loria.fr/challenge_2020/
• Training, validation and test data: WebNLG dataset version 3.0
• Automatic evaluation scripts:
  • RDF-to-text
  • text-to-RDF
• BENG leaderboard: https://beng.dice-research.org/gerbil/
• Papers:
  • Challenge report: ACL Anthology, presentation slides at INLG'2020
  • BENG leaderboard paper: ACL Anthology
  • System descriptions
  • WebNLG+ 2020 workshop proceedings: ACL Anthology
  • Research papers that use the WebNLG dataset

Repository Structure

• evaluation/human-evaluation/results contains human evaluation results for the RDF-to-text task
• submissions contains team submissions to the challenge (.txt and .xml files)
• evaluation/human-evaluation/eval-scripts contains scripts to calculate human scores, IAA, and statistical significance testing

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├── baselines
│   ├── rdf2text
│   └── text2rdf
├── evaluation
│   ├── automatic-evaluation
│   │   ├── text-to-triples
│   │   └── triples-to-text
│   ├── human-evaluation
│   │   ├── amt-scripts
│   │   │   ├── data
│   │   │   │   └── en
│   │   │   │       ├── inputs
│   │   │   │       └── tables
│   │   │   ├── eval_metadata
│   │   │   ├── hit_utils
│   │   │   └── scripts
│   │   │       └── corpus-reader
│   │   ├── eval-scripts
│   │   │   ├── en
│   │   │   └── ru
│   │   └── results
│   │       ├── en
│   │       │   ├── Amazon_AI_(Shanghai)
│   │       │   ├── Baseline-FORGE2017
│   │       │   ├── Baseline-FORGE2020
│   │       │   ├── bt5
│   │       │   ├── cuni-ufal
│   │       │   ├── CycleGT
│   │       │   ├── DANGNT-SGU
│   │       │   ├── FBConvAI
│   │       │   ├── Huawei_Noahs_Ark_Lab
│   │       │   ├── NILC
│   │       │   ├── NUIG-DSI
│   │       │   ├── ORANGE-NLG
│   │       │   ├── OSU_Neural_NLG
│   │       │   ├── RALI
│   │       │   ├── TGen
│   │       │   ├── UPC-POE
│   │       │   └── WebNLG-2020-reference
│   │       └── ru
│   │           ├── Baseline-FORGE2020
│   │           ├── bt5
│   │           ├── cuni-ufal
│   │           ├── FBConvAI
│   │           ├── Huawei_Noahs_Ark_Lab
│   │           ├── med
│   │           ├── OSU_Neural_NLG
│   │           └── WebNLG-2020-reference
│   └── references
└── submissions
    ├── rdf2text
    │   ├── en
    │   │   ├── Amazon_AI_(Shanghai)
    │   │   ├── Baseline-FORGE2017
    │   │   ├── Baseline-FORGE2020
    │   │   ├── bt5
    │   │   ├── cuni-ufal
    │   │   ├── CycleGT
    │   │   ├── DANGNT-SGU
    │   │   ├── FBConvAI
    │   │   ├── Huawei_Noahs_Ark_Lab
    │   │   ├── NILC
    │   │   ├── NUIG-DSI
    │   │   ├── ORANGE-NLG
    │   │   ├── OSU_Neural_NLG
    │   │   ├── RALI
    │   │   ├── TGen
    │   │   └── UPC-POE
    │   └── ru
    │       ├── Baseline-FORGE2020
    │       ├── bt5
    │       ├── cuni-ufal
    │       ├── FBConvAI
    │       ├── Huawei_Noahs_Ark_Lab
    │       ├── med
    │       └── OSU_Neural_NLG
    └── text2rdf
        ├── en
        │   ├── Amazon_AI_(Shanghai)
        │   ├── Baseline
        │   ├── bt5
        │   └── CycleGT
        └── ru
            ├── Baseline
            └── bt5

Installation

This repository contains submodules. To install them together with the repository, run

git clone --recursive [repo]

If the repository is already cloned, run

git submodule update --init --recursive

Citation

If you use the scripts and data provided by the challenge, please cite the challenge report.

@inproceedings{webnlg2020report,
    title = "The 2020 Bilingual, Bi-Directional {W}eb{NLG}+ Shared Task: Overview and Evaluation Results ({W}eb{NLG}+ 2020)",
    author = "Castro Ferreira, Thiago  and
      Gardent, Claire  and
      Ilinykh, Nikolai  and
      van der Lee, Chris  and
      Mille, Simon  and
      Moussallem, Diego  and
      Shimorina, Anastasia",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web (WebNLG+)",
    month = "12",
    year = "2020",
    address = "Dublin, Ireland (Virtual)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.webnlg-1.7",
    pages = "55--76"
}

Note

This repository is still under development, so some parts may be missing. We thank you for your understanding.