The 2nd Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation
(Practical D2T 2024)

While large language models (LLMs) offer to become a viable alternative to
traditional rule-based data-to-text (D2T) natural language generation
(NLG), they still suffer from well-known neural model issues, such as lack
of controllability and risk of producing harmful text. There are many
potential solutions to this problem up for discussion.

The Practical D2T workshop at INLG 2024 aims to build a space for
researchers to discuss and present innovative work on D2T systems using
LLMs. Building upon the 2023 edition’s hackathon, Practical D2T 2024 opens
up a broader range of activities, including a special track for
neuro-symbolic D2T approaches and a shared task in D2T evaluation focused
on semantic accuracy.

Website: https://practicald2t.github.io/

Practical D2T 2023 at INLG 2023: https://practicald2t.github.io/2023/

Workshop Topic and Content

Practical D2T 2024 will be a full-day in-person-only event. We welcome
contributions from both original unpublished work and non-archival
submissions, in the form of long (8 pages) or short (4 pages) papers, on
topics including but not limited to:

- Design, implementation and evaluation of LLM-assisted D2T systems

- Cross-domain adaption of LLMs for D2T

- User perceptions and acceptance of LLM-generated text in D2T

- Bias, fairness and red-teaming issues in LLM-assisted D2T systems

- Leveraging LLMs for D2T in low-resource languages and domains

- Error analysis and debugging techniques for LLM-assisted D2T

- Human-in-the-loop approaches for improving LLM-assisted D2T

- Comparison between LLM-assisted D2T and traditional symbolic approaches

Special Track: Neuro-Symbolic D2T

Research is currently seeing a renewed interest in developing systems
combining neural and symbolic approaches to improve explainability and
reduce dependence on training data. Practical D2T 2024 will feature a
special track on neuro-symbolic approaches to D2T. Submissions for papers
in the special track follow the same requirements and procedure as the main
workshop submissions.

Shared task: Improving Semantic Accuracy in LLM-assisted D2T

This year will feature a shared task on improving semantic accuracy of D2T
systems. Participants will build an LLM-assisted D2T system to generate
textual reports from various domains, such as weather forecasting, product
descriptions or sports reports. We will provide testing data obtained from
public APIs, to limit potential previous exposure to the used LLMs.

We encourage participants to focus on system robustness and objective
evaluation, rather than metrics scores. Because of this, participants will
receive an initial evaluation script, that they are encouraged to
change/improve. All submitted system’s outputs will be evaluated against
every submitted custom evaluation, and correlated with human ratings.

The system reaching the highest correlation with humans will be declared
winner of the competition. Results and participants’ system descriptions
will be featured in the workshop proceedings.

For more info, visit the workshop website:
https://practicald2t.github.io/pages/cfp


Important dates
Note: all deadlines are 23:59 UTC-12.

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   Evaluation script and data release for known domains (shared task)  24
   June
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   Regular paper submission (main & special track, archival &
   non-archival): 22 July
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   Known domains system output submission & surprise domain data release:
   29 July
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   Surprise domain system outputs submission: 5 August
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   System description submission (shared task): 12 August
   -

   Notification of acceptance (main, special track and shared task):  19
   August
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   Camera-ready (main, special track and shared task):  28 August
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   Workshop: 23/24 September (to be announced)


Contacts and more info:

Find detailed information about submission, deadlines and contacts on the
official Practical D2T 2024 website: https://practicald2t.github.io/


For any query, contact the organiser at d2t2...@googlegroups.com

If you have any problem with the above mail group, contact
ballo...@ufal.mff.cuni.cz

Organisers

Simone Balloccu, Ondřej Dušek, Patrícia Schmidtová, Zdeněk Kasner, Kristýna
Onderková, Ondřej Plátek, Mateusz Lango, Ondřej Dušek - Charles University
(CZ)

Ehud Reiter - University of Aberdeen (UK)

Lucie Flek - University of Bonn (DE)

Simon Mille - ADAPT Centre (UK)

Dimitra Gkatzia - Edinburgh Napier University (UK)
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